This is a great microcosm for the moment in tech: the more time one spends with abstractions, the less one understands the fundamentals. 

Not all jobs require knowing the fundamentals, but such knowledge can be a powerful lever for this who know how to use it.

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions.

Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

Lakshya Jain

This is a great microcosm for the moment in tech: the more time one spends with abstractions, the less one understands the fundamentals. 

Not all jobs require knowing the fundamentals, but such knowledge can be a powerful lever for this who know how to use it.

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