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> The number of developers duplicates each 5 years You probably mean "double" here, but the bottom line is that there is zero data to back up that claim. He l

> The number of developers duplicates each 5 years You probably mean "double" here, but the bottom line is that there is zero data to back up that claim. He literally made up that number out of thin air to make his talk look more important.

Aeolun 7y ago
It should be fairly simple to look up people describing themselves as developers in the census data I think?
- yellowapple 7y ago
  Does the census actually track that? I just did the questionnaire last night online and it didn't ask me anything about my occupation. Or did you mean something other than the US Census (e.g. GitHub or Stack Overflow or LinkedIn profiles)?
  - throwanem 7y ago
    The long form asks about your line of work. Most people get the short form.
  - Aeolun 7y ago
    No, I meant the US census (or whatever national census), I didn’t actually check if they asked that since it seemed like such a basic thing :/ sorry.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  Not as easy as you might think, since “developers” isn't particular to software and software developers have lots of other near-equivalent terms, the set of which in use changes over time, and many of them aren't unique to software, either. OTOH, historical BLS data is easy to look up.
purerandomness 7y ago
Let's say it's 10 years, or make it 15 years, for the sake of the argument. How does that change his original argument?