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Full-stack literacy of any sort seems to transcend blue/white collar though... breaks both the deeper epistemic distinction and the shallower social distinction. Goes beyond the Hegelian master-space dialectic somehow.
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Most maintenance software work can be seen as either: 1. Plumbing. 2. Gardening.
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Trimming the hedge is a good skill for a coder. I used to describe myself as a plumber.. but now think I'll go with 'gardener' It evokes the sense of compassion I feel for the malnourished systems I cross paths with. twitter.com/CodeWisdom/sta…
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in game design, very much. Unity is a platform that does a ton of things for you, so the coding is more like building IKEA furniture in some ways than it is like super hard problem solving. I would say new game engineering is maybe 70% IKEA and 30% interesting
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See "programmer vs. developer" definitions people try to make. Partly a reaction to offshoring, "We need to have the expensive people /here/ managing the blue collar programmers over there"
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"Software Carpentry" teaches blub studies to PhD's in academia who write code to do their research. So that particular organization isn't evidence of software going blue collar. Bootcamps could be though.
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