I'm not Sean Lindsay so I can't speak for him, but I remember the first bubble and his phrase resonated with me, and not because 'english majors aren't good dev

I'm not Sean Lindsay so I can't speak for him, but I remember the first bubble and his phrase resonated with me, and not because 'english majors aren't good developers'. I don't think that is what he meant by it. The first bubble was about 'boots on the ground' and an extremly limited pool of talent. I was getting calls to move to New York, California, Chicago... because I KNEW JAVASCRIPT. There was no stack-exchange, no learning blogs and most information was still gathered through purchasing the O'Reilly on X or submitting a question to X's newsgroup. So the phrase "how many English majors on your dev team?" really just meant (IMHO) "How many people do you have that really don't know what they are doing"... I don't think reading that phrase in today's bubble scenario makes as much sense as it did twelve years ago.