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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by scarface74 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:10PM (#20955193)
Sorry, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to learn the CS fundamentals in 9 months. Period. What you may be able to do is to teach people how to game interviews within 9 months, sure. Good luck once that performance review comes around...

How many jobs require a knowledge of “CS fundamentals”. The typical development job are basically the “dark matter developers” writing yet another software as a service CRUD app or bespoke internal app that will never see the light of day outside of the company.

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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by apersona on Saturday September 14, 2019 @03:21AM (#20969406)
That sounds depressing.

Why would you want to confine yourself to working on CRUD apps instead of working on cool tech?

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Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs... by scarface74 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:10AM (#20970070)
Because after programming either professionally or as a hobby for over 30 years, no “tech” is “cool”. It’s simply a means to have enough money deposited into my bank account to enjoy an upper middle class lifestyle.

In given week, I’m up and down the stack from the web to the infrastructure (AWS). I found all of the things that AWS enabled that took literally months to provision in the old world “cool” for about a year and then it became just another means to an end.

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