> The thing that disturbed me with the essay "Beating the > Averages"http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.htmlwas the assumption that > programming is a > zero-sum game. My fear isn't that I'll be replaced with a better programmer, > but that people will decide that they have better things to spend their > money on than programming. For example, see this blog post about > bioinformaticshttp://nsaunders.wordpress.com/about-2/about/
I realise this will probably come across as glib, but so? The very industry that provides us a living has come at the cost of large sections of other industries. The only viable solution I can think of it to always be investing in yourself. Keep your skillset current, look for the best tools for the job. Ruby's relative youth makes me think you probably already do that to some degree. If at some point that means you'll need a complete context shift and to become a "Bioinformaticist".... well at least you've warned us all ;) Glenn Gillen http://glenngillen.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
