One way to make yourself indispensable is doing the jobs of five people.
Why do 100 times more code when you can do 500 times more code and be the hero of the department?
Copy and paste exist for a reason.
[...] written for a bunch of idiots.
You must be new to Slashdot.
look up, whoossssh
This may be a joke to you. it's a serious question for some.
In the US gov, tech is usually 2 or 3 generations behind reality
What a coincidence! I work in government IT. Your statement isn't entirely accurate. Take Windows 10, for example. We are currently retiring version 1709, upgrading version 1809 to version 1909, and testing version 2004.
Actually, it doesn't. If you're starting a new Python project, it should be version 3.
Version 2 end of life was January 1, 2020.
A funny thing happened on Friday, September 25, 2020: no one could post anonymous comments on Slashdot.
The first thread to mention being unable to post anonymously as a registered user was under a story about Facebook busting a Russian disinformation network to influence the November elections. That makes sense. The 2020 elections are going to be a raging dumpster fire for all the platforms.
Assuming that this wasn’t a glitch, the era of anonymous comments may be over on Slashdot.
If I'd known computer science was going to be like this, I'd never have given up being a rock 'n' roll star. -- G. Hirst