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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, on average you will find less and less tech savvy people in real life moving forward.

But if you were to ask a programming question on the most popular coding site, you would get more responses today than 20 years ago.

[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but what's the relative quality of responses? I feel like the bar for "tech savvy" or "competent at programming" has dropped precipitously. And unfortunately, the number of people confidently asserting a wrong answer online is high in my experience, including on programming forums.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Think about it this way,

Has the total number of C++ experts gone down since 20 years ago or has it gone up? The total market share has gone down, but total amount of systems running C++ has increased.

Today is more lucrative to be an expert than 20 years ago, and there are far more positions that offer good money.

It’s also easier to make money by knowing very little programming.

So the question is, would the people capable of being a true expert avoid that path today even though it’s more lucrative, I don’t think so.

The only difference is, 20 years ago, only the true experts were online, now they probably don’t enjoy being online as much and are probably big fans of old school hobbies (like wood working)