F*ck You, Pay Me (2011)

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This one never gets old, because it will always be a problem. Developers don't have it quite as bad as other creatives, mostly those in the arts, because people who know nothing about art generally assume that art is worthless.

For me, it's the whole DevOps movement implying that dedicated Ops have no value and that some kid fresh out of college who wants to use node.js is just as good at Ops as a sysadmin with 5 years experience.

I find it much more amusing when some kid with 3 years of experience in programming in Node.js, Ruby, WTFOnTracks, or some other PHP du jour thinks he will be as good as a seasoned sysadmin. Or better yet, he's not replacing a sysadmin, but a system programmer.

Wish I had watched this 6 months ago.

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