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Hmm, help me figure out what to make of it. Where did see you it (I'm trying to understand the context)?


It was a response to the comment:

>>Someone is trying to flood the market to drive wages down.

As you can see here. Someone who was an analyst, self taught themselves to "code" in rails, php, python and javascript.

Which by their own omission is using "scripting" techniques to build the application from a template.

They are wanting to go on a bootcamp where they cramp you with tons years of knowledge in just what 12 weeks?

Once working, they expect to earn 85+k.

Does this remind you of anything?

Remember the whole MCSE debacle pre 2001. Where colleges where promising $100k salaries for doing tech support.

Where are the wages now? Oh yeah, for an MCSE, A+, Cisco Cert don't expect to be paid much.


Anybody entering the market that has even a grain of intelligence would be spending their time both before and after being hired learning how to engineer software (language/framework agnostic) instead of forever monkeying around with a scripting language in a single environment. Doing anything less is eventual career and paycheck suicide. Python or Ruby are fine as starting points, but if you stop there you're fucking yourself over.





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