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What we have today is the result of scientific development, and software development is among the fields at the very forefront of modern growth. In that context
by tomnipotent 8y ago
What we have today is the result of scientific development, and software development is among the fields at the very forefront of modern growth. In that context, all of it.
AirBnB? Yup. Uber? Definitely. Facebook? Beyond a doubt. Flickr? Twitter? MySpace? How about open source projects like Apache httpd? Kafka? Linux? What about the guidance software used in the Apollo missions? Think about what the MP3 coding format did for digital media.
It's very easy to take these things for granted, boiled frog and all that.
- eesmith 8y agoThen you also disagree with the survey's definition that "Scientific development" = "Data analysis + Machine learning" = 28% of the users. You agree that there is a mismatch between their classification and yours, and believe it should be 100%. This supports my argument that their definition is not useful. Rather, it could have been "foobar programmers", and been a more useful as it wouldn't have come with a large amount of existing associations with different meanings.