<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:37 PM Rob Lanphier <<a href="mailto:roblan@gmail.com">roblan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If you aren't familiar with Wirth's law, you probably should be:<br>
<<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law</a>><br>
In short: "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is<br>
becoming faster"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">There was a time when computer science was the domain of mathematics departments. Today, computer science is the mass market STEM degree. I attended a friend's graduation a long time ago, and I remember being struck by the fact that there were as many computer science graduates as all other science degrees put together. At the end of the day, there is a large market for mediocre programmers who never need to do anything more complex than write a glorified database front-end.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ever since I seen video codecs implemented in Javascript,</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">*weep*</div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dr. Daniel Carrera</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Postdoctoral Research Associate</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Iowa State University</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>