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I assume you're absolutely right about the areas you mentioned but it's not something that an average developer works on nowadays. In the same way as the majori

I assume you're absolutely right about the areas you mentioned but it's not something that an average developer works on nowadays. In the same way as the majority of professional drivers are not race drivers.

sjapkee 9y ago
Fraud detection, billing systems, infosec, banking, HFT, image/video processing and pattern recognition, games development, firmware, highload tools and services, tools for programmers (IDEs, linters, etc.), programming languages design, browsers, search systems, data processing and storage systems, electronic document management, cryptosystems, operating systems, frameworks, etc. It seems to me that this is a large part of the software being developed right now. And the development of all this requires rather non-trivial knowledge and skills. So your comparison with the race drivers is quite far from the truth.
- pyjammas 9y ago
  I'm assuming you're in one of these fields and conveniently count yourself among the 'non-trivial' developers?
  - sjapkee 9y ago
    Yes, I am in one of this fields and no, I am "mediocre developer".
    - pyjammas 9y ago
      all the more baffling that you feel a need to go out of your way bucket your work into 'mediocrity'.