What happens to tech workers when their skills become obsolete?

Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by jackpirate on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:14AM (#20947902)

Every CS topic requires math much more advanced than calc 2 to properly understand it. For example:

* Machine learning is nothing but multivariate calculus.

* Analyzing network traffic is all queueing theory which is based on calculus.

* Even the simple data structures proof that no comparison-based sorting algorithm can run faster than n log n requires calculus.

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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by hellisothers on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:26AM (#20948300)

But the vast vast majority of programming jobs don’t and will not require this type of knowledge. Yes it’s useful in some very important career paths but not the average.

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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by robocat on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:17AM (#20948852)

And yet you see plenty of graphics programmers learning advanced 3D shit without a CS degree.

And all those older programmers doing machine learning when they haven't had any CS courses on the topic.

Obviously a degree helps, but it doesn't stop someone suitably motivated and capable.

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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by devoply on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:39AM (#20948369)

You can do quite a bit without understanding it properly. As tons of cool kids have shown none of that shit actually matters if you are trying to create the next big thing that's going to make billions.

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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by AstralStorm on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:32AM (#20948331)

Missed statistics on the second bit. It's not just calculus though statistics use it.

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