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You can never make good money as a programmer, if you let non-programmers pick the subject, or let non-programmers monetize the platform in your stead. Google a
by gizi 11y ago
You can never make good money as a programmer, if you let non-programmers pick the subject, or let non-programmers monetize the platform in your stead. Google and Facebook are worth hundreds of billions of dollars exactly because there is not one non-programmer with a say in them.
- vehementi 11y agoOthers claim other reasons for Google and Facebook's success: how did you determine that your reason is right and theirs are wrong?
- gizi 11y agoI did not say that I believe this because it would be true. Of course, I only believe this because I want to believe this. You see, I am a programmer. So, my belief is that programmers are superior and non-programmers are inferior. So, everything I claim will always further that view. Therefore, my every political move is always aimed at confiscating any possible say or decision power from non-programmers and to eject them out of the game. Seriously, when push comes to shove, I only listen to other programmers. Isn't that obvious?
- jon-wood 11y agoWow, I guess there's something to be said for being aware of your own biases at least.
- cynicalkane 11y agoSteve Jobs knew programming, but I wouldn't really call him a "programmer" in the way you're thinking about it.
- phaus 11y agoSteve Jobs probably didn't "know" programming. http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code
- dasil003 11y agoI actually think your first sentence is an interesting thesis that bears examination, but your second sentence is an unnuanced non-sequitur.
- fsloth 11y agoI think you confuse the founder/owner status with the work role. I would rephraze this - you can never make good money as a salaried employee (google with it's early-stock-millionaires is an exception). The second question is, how can a company be succesfull? I know several very succesfull software businesses which were not directed by software engineers. The question about competence to run a company is far more complex than saying if domaim specialists won't run the show it will tank.