Programming labor market
Half the people who *could* code don’t want to because it is boring
Half the people who *do* code shouldn’t because they’re not really up to the challenge
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I’m mostly in the doesn’t code/shouldn’t code quadrant.
If you’re in this quadrant despite having an engineering background and being competent enough at other aspects of it., it’s called being a squib. As in Harry Potter.
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What about someone who could, do, and up to, but is so out of phase with the market that there are no marketable skills there?
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You have marketable skills. You lack marketable demands.
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Sure... What are the demands these days? Web development and Python? The latter is incompatible with my brain, and i'll have to write a bloody web browser from scratch to have a chance of getting the former.
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I’d have this conversation with you if I thought you gave 1/2 a shit about the answer I’d give :)
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Heh I throw ideas at Artem just for the fun of seeing them shot down in particularly entertaining ways. Most people shoot you down with boring excuses. Artem’s excuses are an art form.
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Idea skeet. Got to be a name for something by now.
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Hm, that book is actually on my to-read list... About 80Kb deep.


