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by throwawayjava 9y ago
> but I cannot think of a worse occupation to get into right now, with self-driving trucks on the horizon I don't think this is necessarily true. Fully self-driving trucks are at least a generation out. I wouldn't seek a huge
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
It's certainly involuntary servitude, and I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between that and slavery. Also, the word "except" is our key hint here.
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
The Fast Company story is weird. It lists Scala and Go as "MOST SOUGHT AFTER" skills. First, IMO it's weird to consider particular languages as "skills" when talking at a sort of macro level about educational prepar
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
Read through the list of S&P 500 stocks. Almost none of those companies could exist -- especially at their current scale -- without a huge pool of college-educated engineers/scientists/doctors. There may be a lot of employees
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
> ...this is a hypothetical... Ok. And it's a bad hypothetical because it emphasizes individual roi instead of systems-level effects when discussing a problem where all the interesting action is in the systems-level effects. I u
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
> ...is a stoic enough soul to live on truck drivers' wages for 24 years Truck drivers make decent money. $40k, usually closer to $50k+ if you're experienced without accidents. Much more importantly, you don't need to be
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
> ...again, that's why you don't do that with hypotheticals intended to be social commentary. Good social commentary helps us identify and solve problems. I don't think this particular commentary puts us in a good mindse
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
But the hypothetical breaks down once you consider it as a proposal, which makes for a dubious social commentary. Hypothesis testing is far more valuable than pure hypothetical! Governments are willing to subsidize loans for education but n
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
> far surpassing the US Why is this a problem? India has 4x the population...
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
Exactly the opposite. Typed languages without parametric/generic code result in extraordinarily verbose and bug-prone code. You end up constantly casting to/from void* or Object. That's why all popular typed languages after C
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by throwawayjava 9y ago
> My definition of an object is "an ADT that gets to 'decide', using private runtime state, what to do in response to any/all attempts to interact with it." Which makes for a very simple test: if something is an