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		fjordan on Aug 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders ... I say software programming is a support profession. Isn't medicine also a support profession? A good doctor will proactively prevent sickness and death, while most will deal with it as it happens.

webrakadabra on Aug 25, 2011 [–]

when I say support proffession, I mean 'A proffession which supports other Proffessions'. I did not mean it as 'A proffession which supports lives or people'.

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