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1. ng0 (ng0@social.n0.is)'s status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 07:11:27 EST ng0
   @alva @thor And I wonder, are more technical documentation writer jobs what we need instead of rewriting every 20 years or so everything in the new fancy language?
   1. luminous moss (alva@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 07:17:07 EST luminous moss

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      @ng0 @thor maybe we "just" need to select for it. If I can make a guess, I'd say documenting things is seen as a soft skill, and soft skills are generally undervalued in tech, and other male-dominated cultures.

      1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 13:24:19 EST deutrino

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         @alva The "soft skills" thing nails it pretty well imo. Source: have literally gotten in trouble at past crap tech job for spending too much time on documentation when I should have been doing the far more valuable job of producing more lines of undocumented code per day 🙄
         @ng0 @thor