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From 2011: "Don’t call yourself a programmer: “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.” If
by datadrivenangel 2y ago
From 2011: "Don’t call yourself a programmer: “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.” If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired. You know Salesforce, widely perceived among engineers to be a Software as a Services company? Their motto and sales point is “No Software”, which conveys to their actual customers “You know those programmers you have working on your internal systems? If you used Salesforce, you could fire half of them and pocket part of the difference in your bonus.”" [0]
0 - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
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- bogdan 2y agoGood thing everybody hates Salesforce.
- snuxoll 2y agoI dislike the company, I like the product - I have built several small apps on the platform and nothing has ever been "no code" as they like to advertise, but hot damn was I able to throw together something useful for the business in less than a day and have people using it as quickly. As an engineer I find it incredibly valuable for making these low-to-medium value LOB apps that don't justify the man-hours to build, deploy, and fight tech debt for a full-stack web application, at least when factoring in the tradeoff for license costs.
- datadrivenangel 2y agoIt's a valuable product. Salesforce knows this, and prices accordingly, which is why everybody hates salesforce but still pays them.
- red-iron-pine 2y agobut still uses it
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- AndreasMoeller 2y agoI agree with this. I think coder is even worse. Software engineer or Software developer are much better terms.