Coders are the modern cowboy, and I suspect will suffer the same fate. In the US 1860-1890s, as railroads cemented their place in industrializing the country and cities slowly became the dominant way of life (it would take until the 1910s for the majority of US people to be living in proper cities), the Wild West was peaking. Anyone with the base skills: knitting, hunting, g*nslinging, riding, etc. could abscond from society and hit the road. Putting their skills to use haphazardly and living...