unpopular tech opinion: it's more than fine for people to get into software development in order to increase economic mobility (aka to do it for the money) and you don't have to be ~passionate~ about programming to be an excellent engineer
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If I'm wrong and the portion of the industry that's not linked to unethical stuff is much bigger than I thought, that's a pleasant surprise. I'm just doubtful.
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I feel like a huge proportion of the software industry is random line-of-business software in relatively traditional businesses but you just don't hear about it much because it's targeted at a few niche customers instead of everyone on earth like Google/FB/Apple/Facebook/Amazon
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Yes. There's a ton of software being built in "flyover country" that is in the service of stable and mature industries. In logistics, warehousing, the restaurant industry, manufacturing. Nothing that would make the news on
@Techmeme, but as said, not software made by the big 5 -
And a ton of software in big tech centers too!
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Agreed. I think the percentage of software being developed for non consumer facing & ad revenue driven web based services is huge, it's just not particularly interesting to those outside of the particular vertical its intended for.
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Great quote from
@levie a while back "Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it." Growing up, my wealthiest friend's father owned a corrugated box company, hence the earlier example. Boring, and immensely profitable.
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