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jrockway on Sept 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Force Multipliers and Japanese Programmers

In Japan programming may simply be viewed more as "a salary job" they could qualify for, filled with lots of uninspired folks who just want to grind through their shift and get the hell out of there at the end of the day.

Um, have you ever been to the US? It's like that here too.

bane on Sept 28, 2011 [–]

Good point. But I wonder what kind of percentages of "hobbyist" programmers vs. "paycheck" programmers there are in different countries.

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