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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
One odd thing about software engineering culture is that almost all instructional material is introductory. It's rare to find screencasts aimed at deep problems experts encounter in production systems. Gary's videos are a glorious exception—I'm really thrilled that he's back!
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Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
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New YouTube channel! The first video is "End-to-End TypeScript: Database, Backend, API, and Frontend". It shows our end-to-end type guarantees from the backend database all the way to the React props. Demoed live using @exec_prog's codebase as the example. youtube.com/watch?v=GrnBXh
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Michael Woods
@carpdiem
This is not just a factor in sw eng. Compare the number of intro Calc videos to those of graduate topology. More expert /focused content simply has a smaller potential audience, and its production is not rewarded to the same extent by the like-economy.
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Michael Woods
@carpdiem
Is that uniformly true across institutions? If not, it would be very curious to better understand the distribution. I actually don't have any data (or even anecdotes!) to support one way vs the other about whether teaching intro vs advanced classes is rewarded.
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Michael Woods
@carpdiem
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@andy_matuschak
Good point, that's almost certainly true! I wasn't even thinking that far abroad, just wondering whether, e.g., Harvard vs Cal State differentially reward teaching intro vs advanced classes in tenure considerations.
Michael Woods
@carpdiem
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@andy_matuschak
Though one point wrt your business example: the distributions have very different maxima, though their averages may be similar! An HR process consultant may not make very much, but may be employable virtually everywhere. A specialist in regulatory compliance for export of...
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