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		tjpnz on Oct 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career... That's a function of experience. Junior dev me was coding 80-90% of the time but 10 years in it's 10-20% of the time.

clarry on Oct 20, 2019 [–]

Or a function of your position in the hierarchy of things. Tell a programmer in a subcontracting company to create business value when the main contractor's architects & sales team have -- without your input -- already decided exactly what feature must be implemented..

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