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Comment Re:Measurements (Score 1) 425

So which one is a "software development engineer"?

That depends on the country, and whether engineer means anything there.

Banging out code is the core of it, to be sure, but it's not what most of us spend our time doing, unless you throw in "design" and "testing" into "programming" - which is fine, but then we're back into people skills being part of it.

Right, but we've all worked for places that had people who made other people want to leave, but that you couldn't fire because they were indispensable because of their brilliance. It's not a good plan, but it is a common one.

Comment Re:Depends how you evaluate the curve (Score 1) 425

Assuming that nobody is born able to program, play music or do any other artificial skill, then people must travelling from the left arm to the right one as they pick up experience.

So why is the "bridge" so low? There must be people on that part of the curve to top up the elites as they retire, die, join communes in Vermont etc. Do they pass through it very fast? I don't see a plausible case for that. It's not like there's one or two magic things you need to grok and voila, you're Dennis Ritchie.

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