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It’ll be something you’ll need to go to university for. You wouldn’t be able to learn it for free at home.
by wyre 6y ago
It’ll be something you’ll need to go to university for. You wouldn’t be able to learn it for free at home.
- TonyTrapp 6y agoAnd that's the part where I think it collapses. In many fields (not just computer science), the best people get interested and tinker with the subject early on. Overall, if the only way to learn how to develop and maintain "the system" is in their 20s at a university (or apprenticeship or whatever), I think the quality will deteriorate over time and the system will become unmaintainable.
- pdkl95 6y ago> quality will deteriorate over time Jonathan Blow's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"[1] makes a good argument that software quality has already suffered significant deterioration. We've just gotten used to software not working. Reboot the computer; refresh the webpage; spend the morning trying to work around the "improvements", regressions, and removed features in the software that forced an update. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
- tharne 6y agoThe 'ole "student license". I remember that one from my days learning SAS. Getting out of the clutches of that awful SAS licensing was how I discovered the world of open source and R and Python.