> a chance to earn a good living Well, that’s not the goal here, either. The goal is to turn coding into 21st-century factory assembly work: a miserable grind

> a chance to earn a good living Well, that’s not the goal here, either. The goal is to turn coding into 21st-century factory assembly work: a miserable grind that people do for subsistence wages when they have literally nowhere else to turn, all while making sure that there is nowhere else to turn. I cringe at the cheerleading that HN does when people discount the value of a four-year-degree; if a four-year-degree isn’t “necessary” then by extension, it’s effectively useless. Of course - one of two things is true: coding is actually not that complex and most anybody can just “pick it up” and become effective without much in the way of formal training or education, or it does take years of a combination of practice and study to do correctly. If the former, then it doesn’t much matter what I think - if the latter, then it doesn’t much matter what Tim Cook says (at least out loud regardless of what he actually thinks).