<story><title>This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/132.html#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>Or you could start your own news channel on YouTube, and advertise it locally (in the local paper / subway / with locally-targeted Internet ads).&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s not computer programming that&apos;s special.  It&apos;s computers themselves -- they have greatly lowered the barrier to entry for &lt;i&gt;many&lt;/i&gt; creative professions.  (For which we must thank programmers, of course!)</text></comment>
<story><title>This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/132.html#</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>The analogy doesn&apos;t hold up.&lt;p&gt;The equivalent of making fundamental changes to a TV station in IT is to use your CS degree to make Facebook allow customised homepages in the style of MySpace. The fact that you can make a Facebook/MySpace clone at home in a few night compares to buying a video camera and recording your version of the news in your kitchen.&lt;p&gt;Now, I agree with the conclusion: Computer programming is the great equalizer: for the low cost of a computer, a few books and an Internet connection, anyone can build the next Facebook. There are literally no further barriers.</text></comment>