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And yet there are more compsci than ever, and the field is more diverse. Why does it matter they haven't installed an OS before? Technology advances and the av

by meroes 6y ago

And yet there are more compsci than ever, and the field is more diverse. Why does it matter they haven't installed an OS before? Technology advances and the average use case changes too. At some point CS majors stopped knowing what punchards were for. No field is for one specific group. All these complaints come off as trying to lament the inevitable. Compensation and diversity are both up, so however you slice it why not mention that too?

Barrin92 6y ago
> And yet there are more compsci than ever this isn't even true. Number of computer science graduates fell, and has stagnated since the mid aughts. The field is also one of the least diverse, and the reason compensation is up is because there's a shortage of labour, that's how supply and demand works, and it's why so many foreign CS students and tech workers migrate to the US, because the need for tech talent vastly outstrips the number of qualified workers. None of this is inevitable, decline in technical excellence is a preventable choice, both on a cultural and policy level. This however is only doable if kids, from a young age, have the liberty and power to experiment with the tools they are given, rather than destroying their technical literacy by spoon-feeding them locked down tech and services.