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Comment Re:No mystery - suddenly there was money in it (Score 2) 608

Wrong.

Did you read the fucking article? The female enrollment in CS never changed, what happened is that male interest skyrocketed.

Why? What happened is that the personal computing market had finally reached a good enough saturation point in the previous 8-9 years since the introduction of the Altair. Suddenly, there were young men, many of whom had been social outcasts, who had been programming since their teenage yeas on their parent's computers. These self-taught programmers could run circles around the college CS graduates of the time who had only been programming for 4 years, usually on outdated mainframes. This new crop of programmers had practical experience already with the consumer market devices of the time and could hit the ground running.

To this day, you won't see most teenage girls sitting quietly and learning how to program to get a leg up above the rest. They're too busy popping birth control and twerking to MTV. Speaking of which, MTV launched in 1981 and became mainstream in 1984. Maybe that should be the target of your angst.

Comment Keep feeding the Useless Eaters (Score -1, Troll) 117

We're running out of cheap phospates and ammonia, and we need to keep feeding the billions of useless mouths because it's not politically correct to stop feeding them! We need 20 billion useless eaters clogging up every square centimeter of land on this planet. Just think of the progress!

Comment Web = Garbage (Score 5, Insightful) 315

Next year, the languages you'll need will still be C, C++ and Java. Maybe some C#, Python or Bash. The year after that, you'll still be using C, C++, and Java. Maybe some C#, Python or Bash.

By 2020, the main difference is that you'll be working with machine-learning DSLs and libraries to program/train memristor based devices. But you'll still be using C, C++, and Java. Maybe some C#, Python or Bash.

Comment Re:Meanwhile In Humans... (Score 3, Insightful) 157

Mass education isn't about making the masses of goyim more equal or intelligent. It's about breaking them away from the authority of their parents, selling them the opiate of "equality" and making them serve the will and authority of the modern state. It helps to increase tax revenues, thus enriching the elite. Nothing more or less.

Now serve your masters, goy.

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