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There's nothing wrong with PHP as a language, but I've never seen people offering to write python for fifteen dollars an hour. And it's not like saying that do
by debacle 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with PHP as a language, but I've never seen people offering to write python for fifteen dollars an hour.
And it's not like saying that doctors aren't a profession because there are homeopaths, because homeopaths aren't doctors. The segment of our industry that is more EE than CS is highly professional, somewhat organized, and relatively mature for an industry only fifty years old, but they are a small, nonvocal segment of our industry and they tend to distance themselves from the people who call themselves "developers."
- chris_wot 14y agoDefining what is and isn't a profession can't be defined by hourly rates of pay for low level work. Let's put it another way - just because some people dig ditches doesn't stop construction from being a profession. The fact is that Computer Science is a profession. You might not like certain things about it, but you are deadset wrong if you don't consider it a profession.
- debacle 14y agoBy what criteria do you define construction as a profession?
- chris_wot 14y agoBy what criteria do you define computing to not be a profession? :-)
- beeneto 14y agoDon't burst a vein arguing over the definition of a profession. The litmus test is whether or not an occupation has a policing organisation who dictates who is allowed to practice it. Lawyers, doctors, civil engineers are professions. Homeopathers, developers and ditch diggers are not. I'll reference wikipedia, but its more of an unwritten rule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession#Formation_of_a_profession http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession#Formation_of_a_profe...
- EwanToo 14y agoOff topic really, but there's people willing to write pretty much anything for $15 an hour. That's what you'll pay the company that employs them, they obviously won't get paid it... Here's 1 easy to find example, note the advertised rate on odesk https://www.sugarsync.com/piv/D8109283_67296521_859910 https://www.sugarsync.com/piv/D8109283_67296521_859910