Minor heresy: "Because that's where the money is" is a perfectly valid reason to study programming or seek a job in software. We're capitalists, right? That's how the market signals "Hey, pardon me, hate to interrupt y'all while you're doings you like, but I NEED WEB APPS."
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Also hate to be Marxist before my morning coffee but the "You should be *passionate* about this stuff" memeplex is designed to decrease your wages. "I want missionaries not mercenaries" is a cynical negotiating strategy; they'd never try it with someone they thought a peer.
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Philosophical question: does the world truly need more web apps? In the grand scheme of things, do you think what most programmers work do is a good use of human effort?
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Yes, the world urgently needs more web apps. They are an extremely highly-leveraged use of a smart person's time. There is no terminal value which you have which cannot be advanced perceptibly by writing the right web app. The world doesn't need *every* web app, vacuously.
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I love to code, but I agree more with
@RussellRHawkins. I think we've pulled far too much talent from other areas, especially research, science and engineering domains. We have a lot to show for their efforts but is it really as important as the gains they may have made elsewhereThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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