Indeed. Assuming that people only work on sexy things when basically even the most simple tasks require lots of unsexy work is extremely off the mark.
Sure, a lot of the younger developers are only interested in making shiny iOS or Android apps, but there are a lot of developers who work on operating systems, servers, programming languages, desktop software, etc.
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Re: validation
Date: 2014-05-23 04:26 pm (UTC)Indeed.
Assuming that people only work on sexy things when basically even the most simple tasks require lots of unsexy work is extremely off the mark.
Sure, a lot of the younger developers are only interested in making shiny iOS or Android apps, but there are a lot of developers who work on operating systems, servers, programming languages, desktop software, etc.