Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

Post by mbesto » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:02 PM UTC

natalyarostova wrote: post #94

curiousllama wrote: post #31

This will fail not because it's a bad idea, but because the government will reject it. Contrary to popular belief, established universities do a very effective job of preparing tech talent for government jobs. The issues, which Schmidt seems to miss, are twofold: (1) the government, with few exceptions, is a TERRIBLE place to build effective tech skills. Slow, heavily outsourced, bureaucratic beyond belief, and low p…

Classic modern HN comment. The hard working person with a history of success who is trying a risky ambitious project will fail, because they didn't consider the few things a commentor instantly spotted as problems.

Post by jchiu1106 » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:04 PM UTC

Upvoter33 wrote: post #45

"Palo Alto-based Stanford University ... and MIT have historically been the primary talent pools for the tech industry" This is far from true. If you look at the total workforce in tech, the majority is by far from much larger, public schools, like Berkeley, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, etc., etc. MIT and Stanford have had amazing great people, but they are far from the "primary" source of talent…

Post by k4tz » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC

Upvoter33 wrote: post #145

akhilcacharya wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's honestly insulting copy, and ignores other North American schools like Waterloo that make up a disproportionate part of big tech.

(should have included all the great Canadian universities in the list too, my apologies ... not that I included all the great US universities)

Post by dumdaar » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:16 PM UTC

tehlike wrote: post #160

jason0597 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US army also employs hundreds of thousands. Does that mean it's good to pump so much money into it and keep it that strong?

Depends on who you ask. The general us population owes its army their way of life, quality of life, and wealth.

Post by Avicebron » Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 11:20 PM UTC

agotterer wrote: post #184

Upvoter33 wrote: post #45

"Palo Alto-based Stanford University ... and MIT have historically been the primary talent pools for the tech industry" This is far from true. If you look at the total workforce in tech, the majority is by far from much larger, public schools, like Berkeley, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, etc., etc. MIT and Stanford have had amazing great people, but they are far from the "primary" source of talent…

I came to the comments say the same thing. I’ve hired and worked with many engineers and the overwhelming majority did not attend MIT or Stanford. Some of the best didn’t attend college at all!