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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Today software engineers and tomorrow software engineers minus one.
software engineerr?...I don't get it
My old statistics lecturer would write x-¹ as shorthand meaning everything that is not x, I thought it was in more common usage but perhaps not. I know it more generally means the reciprocal, he just expected you to know which he meant by context.
That is not a great notation for x-complement, considering unambiguous widely accepted notation already exists, such as
x'