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> I've also seen less and less passion for the career as the years go by (ie. less computer nerds). Well, if we assume that the share of the population of nerd
by eru 1y ago
> I've also seen less and less passion for the career as the years go by (ie. less computer nerds).
Well, if we assume that the share of the population of nerds is roughly constant-ish, then an expansion of the total number of developers would lead to nerds making up a smaller and smaller share.
- jimbokun 1y agoThe idea that people have different aptitudes and proclivities has become a radical concept to some these days.
- eru 1y agoMaybe. Back in the olden days, you needed to be a hero who knows all the innards of your 8 bit machine just to produce a decently playable game that was more sophisticated than Tetris. These days even an idiot like me can hack something together in a high level language like Python or Rust. That's progress! Similar to how everybody carries an awesome digital camera around with them today. The absolute number of photographers has increased dramatically. And even the absolute number of great photographers has increased dramatically, because constant practice helps. But I'm fairly sure the skill and dedication of the average person engaging in photography has dropped equally as dramatically: that's how lower barriers to entry look like.