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Parent thinks there is a fix amount of code needed in the world, and the only reason (some) programmers earn a lot of money is that a relatively small number of
by lupire 4y ago
Parent thinks there is a fix amount of code needed in the world, and the only reason (some) programmers earn a lot of money is that a relatively small number of people produce that code. They ignore that the cast majority of code generates demand for more code.
- MikePlacid 4y agoExactly! A successful software project creates a building block. A basic human desire is a) to modify the successful design to perform some other task, and/or 2) to use an existing building block to build something bigger and more complex.
- ls612 4y agoThe “Lump of Code” fallacy