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Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by mateo411 on Saturday October 05, 2019 @04:35PM (#21167774)
It's unrealistic for middle age blue collar workers in America to learn Spanish/Russian/Mandarin/Japanese, assuming that they have no prior experience or exposure to these languages. Learning a natural language is a lot harder than learning a programming language.
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Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by MuffinFlavored on Saturday October 05, 2019 @06:32PM (#21168406)
The tone of the comments here at HackerNews are basically:

middle age blue collar workers can't learn a natural language or a programming language

I really have to ask, what makes us "programmers" so elite? I find it hard to believe that if your average person spent 90 months learning programming that they couldn't scrape by as a mid-level web developers. I have developers in my org who go weeks without committing and management seems to have no problem with that. If that's the quality accepted, why can't that be taught in 90 days?

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