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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @06:10AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @06:10AM (#646888)

    its 2017, why isn't this automated by now?

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by chromas on Sunday March 04 2018, @10:59AM

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 04 2018, @10:59AM (#647577) Journal

    A few old curmudgeons still hang onto their text-based programming, yes. For some reason. Of course, it's nothing so powerful as deeplearn blockchain programming design web. Some people just won't get with the times. That's why where here instead of over a beta.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:30AM (#648419)

    That explains all the unmaintained spaghetti code we're seeing these days.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @02:20PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @02:20PM (#648988)

    Automated, outsourced to India, what's the difference? Either way there are zero jobs for programmers and absolutely no way to get paid for programming.

    Programming is a worthless hobby, nothing more.

    • (Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:02PM (1 child)

      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:02PM (#655615) Journal

      Not quite. The general quality of programming these days is such that anyone who can get a unit test to pass is worth a lot of money. In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king etc.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @06:02AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @06:02AM (#658246)

        I don't have time to write buggy code; I'm too busy fixing bugs in code written by idiots. The trouble with writing code right the first time is I don't produce a mile-long commit history like you fucking trash coders who claim rockstar status by shittng out mountains of defective garbage.

        In rockstar coder land, quantity means quality! Pro coder bros know if you write a really big number of lines of bad code, the good/bad register overflows and wraps around, and then the code magically becomes good code.

        Do I ever get paid to fix your shit? Of course not.

        Fuck you.

    • (Score: 2) by bootsy on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:39PM (2 children)

      by bootsy (3440) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:39PM (#656179)

      Depends on what language you use and what you specialise in. Good programmers are still hard to find.

      The current rate for a good Q programmer, www.kx.com, in London is around 1000 pound a day.

      If you are female and are a programmer you are virtually guaranteed a job.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @05:42AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @05:42AM (#658243)

        Total bullshit. I've been programming for thirty years in esoteric languages you've never heard of, and I haven't seen one dime for my work.

        You're lying and you know it. What is truly infuriating is how lying little shits like you keep spreading the completely false rumor that programming is extremely lucrative. Nothing could be further from the truth. Outside of the make-believe fantasyland you fucking liars have fabricated, programming pays exactly nothing.

        Stop misleading everyone, you deceitful turd.

        • (Score: 2) by bootsy on Monday March 26 2018, @01:24PM

          by bootsy (3440) on Monday March 26 2018, @01:24PM (#658409)

          As a cost centre manager I am paying out these rates I describe. I don't know where you are based geographical and what skill sets you have but you can still get very good pay indeed as a programmer especially if you specialise. I have no need to lie about these things on a site like soylent news. I will grant you there are some strange patterns in programming rates e.g. after 15 years of Java programming experience the rate goes flat. Also younger programmers are often more expensive than older ones as if you have been around a bit you probably have fixed housing costs from a mortgage when house prices were lower versus younger developers who will be attempting to rent at today's crazy prices.