If it were that easy people would not be paying for it.

Your point is these countries don’t? What point exactly are you trying to make.

Intergenerational trauma is a real psychological phenomenon.

A „hilarious anxiety” is an incredibly naive world view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_in_Info...

But yeah, it’s just cause they’re cheap and subservient right.

This is not a matter of prejudice but basic competence.

Postgraduate degrees in particular are rife with cheating, collusion, and „students” mainly in pursuit of a visa than an education.

The main factors being:

- How large is the pool of available candidates for this language? A recruiting risk.

- How mature is this language? A business continuity risk.

Each would survey some broad topic, for example Ancient Egypt. It would be full of detailed drawings/illustrations and accompanying text snippets. "What did the inside of a pyramid look like?", "How did the Ancient Egyptians use chariots?", and so on.

Mum would always buy me a new one every other week. The topics were diverse & broad, and so never got boring.

A bonus was when a subject I had read in these books happened to come up at school :-)

All of this AI/LLM stuff is exasperating. I don't think I can stomach to hear another MBA talk about "leveraging AI" in their next startup/product initiative.

Cool, better autocomplete in my IDE is handy. But that's about it. I'd trade that back in a heart beat if I didn't have to have awful chatbots shoved in my face every time I open a webpage.

Retirement has never felt so far away.

However, neither of our statements are very useful as they are just anecdotes, a result of our personal experiences.

This seems more relevant to physical consumer goods

I share the sentiment but I don’t think this is tech related.

There's a reason these graph DBs are esoteric. They're fun & cool to use but there's not a lot of problems they can solve better than a relational DB.

I'm getting the same feeling again. I don't think we've seen "the next Google", just yet. But the foundations for one are in place.

The Innovator's Dilemma at work.

When I go to use my laptop these days, the last thing I want to do is deal with system admin, I just want to work or play.

To be reductionist ... I'd rather have to deal with vendor lock in a growing successful startup, then have cloud agnostic infrastructure and be out of runway.

Even then, I think people generally over-engineer this problem. I've worked at multiple unicorns who have been 'locked' in to AWS/GCP/Azure.

Think in terms of risk, and opportunity cost.