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I'm with you - I'm pretty tired of hearing the tired arguments about how developers are the lynchpin in every single thing that's even remotely related to techn
by potatolicious 15y ago
I'm with you - I'm pretty tired of hearing the tired arguments about how developers are the lynchpin in every single thing that's even remotely related to technology.
Programmers have some of the biggest egos I've ever seen out of any profession. We give Wall Street bankers a run for their money when it comes to how self-absorbed and how self-aggrandizing we are.
So very sick and tired of coders belittling the role of everyone else in this society - 95% of coders out there wouldn't even remotely be able to cut it on their own without the umbilical of a stable, sizable employer. There are a lot more skills one needs to survive in their own business than simply the ability to implement software.
- mattdeboard 15y agoYou'd be very hard-pressed to find a profession-specific forum of any kind that's not full of participants who think their profession is more important than others in their organization. I switched to software development in my 30s, after a career in PR and marketing. Talented software developers ARE some of the most impressive professionals I've ever met. And frankly, many many many marketeer and PR people deserve the ridicule. Heck, maybe even 95% :)
- crasshopper 15y agoThe quants on Wilmott & NuclearPhynance don't seem to think they're the linchpin. Maybe traders taunt them so much they know their place.
- bastiat 15y agoWe let them think we know our place. After all they are the implementers... I guess. Which mostly goes to show how malleable that line is.