@jlargentaye @blogdiva @marioguzman this is a problem I see right across tech – every year we pump out a new batch of CompSci grads (or just folks who hit the tech job market) who have ben taught only what will fit in the very short time allotted, prioritising what will land them a job

there’s barely time to get them up to speed on whatever the current framework or language hotness is, and certainly no time for “non-essentials” like ⚹checks notes⚹ good #UI design or #UX patterns (much less silly little things like “ethics” or “social impact of tech” 😕)

we certainly don’t seem to be teaching them the history of their craft – what’s been tried & proven helpful, what’s been tried & proven unhelpful (or harmful) & has been discarded. I see so many people reinventing crap software (incl. OSes) & website UI & UX that, frankly, we’d already figured out 20 (or 30!) years ago were a Bad Idea™ & found better solutions for

sure, sometimes the reason we didn’t implement something at the time was that the tech to support it wasn’t quite there yet (CPU, RAM, GPU, connectivity, storage, hardware miniaturisation, whatever) & those ideas should be revisited – but without time to transfer that generational knowledge to the next batch of technologists, new folks keep reinventing shit that should have been permanently relegated to the scrap-heap of software (& hardware) history

its the “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” of tech 💁‍♀️

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@andrewdessler

#AlignmentOfScience 1933/2025
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"Critical research will relocate to "👉#China👈, Europe, and other regions with rational research funding models."

"... China..."?!?

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As the Spanish philosopher and Autor George #Santayana said:

«Los que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo."

(👉Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.👈)

Also: #RemberTheManhattanProject! --Would #Xi have been as scrupulous as POTUS?!?