Oct 29 2011
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“ 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.” (There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. You’re in the business of unemploying people. If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter.)
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Here’s some awesome advice for engineers from a dude who knows his shit.
via reddit
edit: bonus unsolicited movie review contained in the above-linked & quoted article:
The first hour of the Social Network is about making a CRUD app seem like sexy [sic], the second is a Lifetime drama about a divorce improbably involving two heterosexual men.
