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(Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Tuesday March 10 2020, @07:32PM (5 children)
And this is part of the ongoing lie. The simple fact is that there are nowhere near enough jobs for coders to advance into management, especially when most of the management jobs are already spoken for by people related to existing management. Has nothing to do with soft skills and everything to do with who you know (and no, ass kissing isn't a soft skill, it's a con artist skill). Then again , given how much of the industry is based on con games, that explains a lot.
The industry is dying. The consequences of massive consolidation are evident in a lack of innovation, and the need to exploit the poor via gig "platforms " because that haven't come up with new ways to add actual value to the overall economy.
We've been had. But keep plugging out code for your masters at google, Facebook, and amazon to use to further exploit the masses rather than help them improve their economic well-being and independence. Stupid is as stupid does.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:04PM (3 children)
Ah, so you are the bitter AC... Perfect match. I wouldn't hire you either. Luckily we are still allowed to discriminate against people with a bad attitude, though probably not for long in Canada if you win all your lawsuits.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:18PM (2 children)
No, I'm not the bitter AC. I posted under it specifically so that people would realize that I'm not the only one with the same sentiment. Do you really believe that I'm the only person in the last 20 years to realize that the open source movement has been co-opted by the big companies and that there is no other way forward to make money for small independent developers except to go to a closed-source license if they want to make money selling their fostfare, because RMS was full of crap?
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:55AM
Do you really believe that I'm the only person in the last 20 years to realize...
No, with the Sith there are always two
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2020, @06:23PM
Shows what you know https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html [gnu.org]
RMS never talked about financial viability that I know of, feel free to provide your own citations.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Monday March 30 2020, @03:58PM
Coders only 'advance into management' in companies with a crappy promotion model. In other companies, they advance to senior development (or possibly architect) roles. There are some skills common to developers and management, but most of the skills that they need are different. HP championed this model (in the '70s or '80s), where a person's manager may be more junior to the person, because a small but specialised engineering project may need senior engineers but only junior managers.
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