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Most people of any generation are not technically savvy. Most people here in HN were technically savvy before formally joining the tech industry. Our industry
by mFixman 4y ago
Most people of any generation are not technically savvy. Most people here in HN were technically savvy before formally joining the tech industry.
Our industry benefited a lot from new employees who had prior experience fighting against buggy Linux distributions or writing random hacks for fun [1]. One of the many consequences of the abatement of general purpose computing is making it harder for teenagers to accidentally discover this wonderful world.
[1] https://xkcd.com/519/ https://xkcd.com/519/