The explosive growth of the tech sector keeps average age down and depresses average wages. Compared to industries which existed in materially the same form in 1970, we have a stupidly compressed experience spectrum: 5+ years rounds to "senior." This is not a joke.
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CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming. There are some exceptions: Waterloo, for example. This is the point where I joke "That's an exhaustive list" but not sure that a joke.
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Technical literacy in the broader population can be approximated with the Thanksgiving test: what sort of questions do you get at Thanksgiving? That's the ambient level of literacy. Serious people in positions of power eat Thanksgiving dinners, too. Guess what they ask at them.
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Salaries in the tech industry are up *a lot* in the last few years, caused by: a tight labor market, collapse of a cartel organized against the interests of workers, increasing returns to scale at AppAmaGooBookSoft, and the like. Investor money *does not* pay most salaries.
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This concludes, for the moment, an off-the-cuff list of things which would otherwise be too obvious to bring up in conversation. Meta thought: you radically underestimate both a) how much you know that other people do not and b) the instrumental benefits to you of publishing it.
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Can someone explain this metallurgy reference?
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Deep in the bowels of your computer, on top of the silicon chips that "do" everything, there are tiny little metal wires. These wires have characteristics like electrical conductivity and heat dissipation, and those characteristics *matter*, but programmers never think of them.
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Hard to do now but get a yellow pages from a large metro area, look at the almost limitless variety of businesses, the old Sears 1200 page general catalog was similar for the range of human activity
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Or go for a walk through your local industrial area and notice just how many businesses you walk past, and all the unknown companies with their nameplates in office blocks. Each one of which has to have turnover of at the very least several $100k/yr to be profitable.
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"Capitalism went bankrupt in Sept '08." Apple, GM, GE, Cisco, IBM, Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, CSC, Intel, Facebook, Google, Twitter, (you name it co.) - they were all socialized in '08. ...believe it, or don't. Without gov funding, they don't exist. See "Zombie Economics"pic.twitter.com/jl6oiJXih4
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How does one begin to learn and understand the dynamics of an economy? Wealth Of Nations doesn't help 1 bit
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