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March 6, 2012

Portrait of a Mobile Software Developer

Portrait of a Mobile Software Developer
South Korea’s mobile code jockeys like David C. Park (shown) are plugged in and trying to push the boundaries of what’s next in mobile, showing a level of style and sophistication that should be raising eyebrows in Cupertino.

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oliviatout

I think mobile software developer currently will be developing because the demand of mobile technology is a lot. There is a chance on it to make money and if you just want to start your career easily, being a software is very promising.
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1/30/2013 5:14 AM EST

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chanj

With the fast pace of standardization of hardware platform, there is no doubt that software engineers will have more opportunity. There will be unlimited supply of young software engineers in the next few years. They will likely focus on mobile application development. Who knows whether software engineering can be further streamline which results in releasing a brand new bug-free apps in less than a month.

3/6/2012 1:38 PM EST

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sharps_eng

@chanj; Western software industry has refused to 'grow up'; and sees itself as a priesthood, essential to translate between man and computing machine.

Eastern thinking takes a humbler view, and regards 'difficult software' merely as a stumbling block in the road to efficient production.

There have been many (largely unoriginal) attempts by Japanese (and other) companies to solve this conundrum, but resistance from the existing software community has been strong.

With tomorrow's excess computing power we can foresee a new paradigm in software development systems emerging within China. It needn't be technically efficient as long as it is effective, such is the need for a 'final solution'. Think about Eastern graphical language(s) meets 3D CAD meets hardware circuit schematics; it might even not be possible to operate it in English, there might not even be any conventional textual, programmatic code.

Once adopted, such a system could blow away 90% of the previous software infrastructure. Western minds might not even be 'wired right' to understand it, mainstream Western programmers could find themselves scraping around for legacy programming work just like Cobol programmers today.

What I am saying is, does the Western software industry have insurance against this happening? How about getting ahead of the game, getting together and doing it first, instead of insisting 'More Efficient Programming Can't Be Done'?

3/11/2012 4:57 PM EDT

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