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by riffraff 1056 days ago
do you expect a year of 5 stellar devs will be enough to re-implement photoshop?

I am doubtful.
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hgsgm 1056 days ago
No, 1 stellar dev for 5 years. https://www.photopea.com/
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wiseowise 1056 days ago
Photopea dev hasn't worked a day in your run of the mill company. You won't find devs like that on a market.
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vGPU 1055 days ago
> Master's degree in theoretical computer science / artificial intelligence

Yeah, that’s definitely not your standard coder.

Previous thread where he posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26768550

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kakwa_ 1055 days ago
In Europe at least, developers having a Master's degree (~5 years of tertiary education) or equivalent is fairly common. From the stats I could find, that's roughly 50% of developers.
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