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1. Computer science is hard.

2. You don’t need a CS degree to be a developer.

3. People aren’t so market-driven when they’re considering majors.

4. Immigrants are taking all the jobs.

5. Anti-women culture.

6. Reactionary faculty.

7. Anti-nerd culture.

8. Skill mismatch and lack of training from startups.

9. Quality gradient.

10. Psychological burn from the dotcom bubble.

11. No pipeline issues anymore.



Can you elaborate on anti-nerd culture?


They just copied in the bullets from the article to save us a click :)


I was hoping somebody would elaborate, the article pretty much says anti-nerd culture doesn’t exist lol


Note: This isn't the TLDR of the article. These are proposed answers to the titular question that the author finds unsatisfactory for one reason or another.


Yea this -- he is trying to disprove those pop culture claims like "immigrants h1b1s taking jobs" or "tech is unfriendly place for women"


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The Reddit-ification of HN persists unabated


Take my ycombinator gold, good internet sir.


Have an updoot




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