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Mostly OT: as a somebody who programs computers I dont enjoy the word 'coder'. For me personally it has the mental connotation of somebody who is just there to 'code' it up, who is given a spec from above to implement, somebody who doesn't need to have any creativity to do his part of the software assembly line. I much prefer the titles 'programmer' or 'sw engineer' because they corelate with problem solving and creativity. Those are two traits without which a technical cofounder that's just a coder will probably be of less use.


Agreed. Nothing worse than hearing a non-technical-business-resource-humanoid mention that they'll just write up the specs and hand it to the coders. Unfortunately, that's the world we live in.


It's just lazy entrepreneurialism. Everyone wants to make lots of money without having to really do the taxing lowly day-to-day work.


Not in every case but most notably anyone working in the role of project manager, an actor who I give the hook to as soon as I'm on a project.




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