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Eh, I don't live in the US and I'm not up to date on the slang, but honestly a sentence like "some people work in technology while others design equipment for I
by antisemiotic 7y ago
Eh, I don't live in the US and I'm not up to date on the slang, but honestly a sentence like "some people work in technology while others design equipment for IC manufacturing" sounds quite silly to me. I'll try to remember now.
- grosswait 7y agoI don't think your interpretation is wrong, just the context of a HN thread makes it more likely "tech" is software related.
- smueller1234 7y agoThat's the gross oversimplification I went for, indeed!
- smueller1234 7y agoApologies for being obtuse. It was me, not you, that failed at communication. :) The type of work, though, and skills required are quite different, regardless of that they technically both develop and involve 'technology'. Semiconductor lithography requires a pretty exciting mix of skills starting with plain physics (classical and by now a bit of quantum optics), materials science, mechanical engineering, data analysis/science, software engineering (both for simulation and analysis of production of lensing systems), and I'm sure I'm missing half. It is quite different from "writes software for a software company", which is the framing I had interpreted from the comment I originally responded to.