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HN had a discussion on the program in Appalachia to try to find employable coders among economically dislocated mining engineers: https://news.ycombinator.com/
by ttyprintk 4y ago
HN had a discussion on the program in Appalachia to try to find employable coders among economically dislocated mining engineers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19892155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19892155
Under this story about bootcamps there was also the experiment by Google to run fiber through those towns. I believe the lesson was that only a handful were employable as fully-remote devs.
- bombcar 4y agoThe key would be to cultivate the young. I expect I’d find it moderately hard to learn coal mining at my age and though I don’t believe it would have been impossible in my youth.