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		svachalek on May 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why isn’t there a glut of good software engineers? If houses were vaguely specified, constantly changing, enormously complex designs for invisible things that had to interface with an entire ecosystem full of other "houses" then yes, programming is like house building.

CmonNoReg on May 1, 2013 [–]

...also sometimes people start using the building while you are still making it. Also each builder has his own style. And there is no final blueprint.

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