Frankly I would question how good these 130k/year tech works if with that kind of income, for such a long time (45 and older) to be forced to train their replacements. They can quit, but they failed to save, so now they can't. Not excusing the H1Bs, but people training their replacements are part of the problem.

Instead of crying about how they need foreigners to fill the gap, what are these tech companies doing to support local career development such as through code camps and education? There are plenty of people with the brains to fill the requirements, just no will to invest in their training. Importing talented people because you refuse to educate your own people who have the talent but not the training, is not the answer.

This is completely wrong. Face reading is actually a near negligible part of poke when it's pros vs pros. Online this isn't even a factor. At high levels it's a game of frequencies, and finding small errors in opponents ranges. It is about spending insane amount of times memorizing game theory optimal plays in tens of thousands of situations. It is about finding the best part of a range to create frequency distributions which would exploit an opponents strategy. It is about tricking an opponent into believing you play a certain way to make them change the way they play to create an opening for you to exploit them. Even if AI can beat texas holdem, PLO is still not even fully understood.

I disagree with formal education being the answer. I went from no knowledge to dev on my own. I took a few University classes but can't stand the slow pace and the irrelevance of most of the classes to what I am doing. I think formal education is almost a cancer.

If your talking about node.js for example, it would be next to impossible to have a class on this. For one, most computer science profs are perfectly happy teaching the same class on C++ they have been teaching for the last 10 years; good luck getting them to change. Secondly, it's not realistic to keep up with the speed that new technology evolves if you first have to train the teacher, then the teacher train the student. The process for this is at least several years.

I feel that I sometimes get discriminated against because of my lack of a University degree, but I'm ok with that, because I know my shit, and I get shit done, and that is real value as opposed to perceived value.

The fact that we are getting University degrees, not because we want to learn something, but because of how others will judge us for having or not having it tells me that it is fundamentally broken.

I have a membership to pluralsight. I can buy books on amazon. I get the information from the source. What good reason would I have to wait for a teacher to teach me, when I can teach myself.

Formal education is not the answer imo. The answer is for more people to take responsibility for their own education. Learn what they want to learn. Chances are if you put the same amount of time learning stuff you care about vs stuff that the university wants you to care about, you will be much better off from a pure knowledge point of view.

I also think the argument for a well rounded education is also flawed. The goal is to focus on improving the economy and allowing nations to be more productive. We should do more to encourage self-directed learning.

I know it's not for everyone, but for some it's the answer.