As someone with many years and world class credentials in tech, I agree. Coding is not taught in universities. It shouldn't be, in a sense. There's so much that one can only learn by working on BIG projects. All the stuff you learn in school is supposed to be fundamentals, but when you are hired and forced to work with legacy code consisting of millions of lines of spaghetti, none of that background is all that useful.

Why? C++ offers a ton of advantages over C, so long as you don't mind reading 10,000 pages to figure out all the features.

I like C, but most of the time I use C++ to get C-like behaviour with some extras.

R has become surprisingly useful these days. I was working on a project where the main developer was an R guy. He got up a data visualization pretty quickly.

Python sucks, except for scripting. Try writing anything substantial in it and revel in the joy of debugging.

Sounds like the ultra left silicon valley culture. I just left my rather prominent tech employer, feel better about it already.

true, the worst being the occultist and jewish infiltration of the medieval guilds (e.g., the freemasons).

blech... she's well past her due date... even when young I think she was probably ugly

ah yes, strangling yourself with an electrical cord. a time tested way to commit suicide.

yeah, i bet it would pop a couple of years ago. Still going.

no thanks... worked in a union environment for a while and saw the results.

there is a nascent tech workers union. Formed after the dot com bubble, I believe. Probably another reason employers want to flood in foreigners, since they are not likely to unionize.

Eh, depends on the company. To stay at a low level I think there isn't much required beyond hard work.

To get promoted to senior positions is hard unless you are left wing, connected, etc. I notice a clear correlation between promotions and politics at my compny.