ThePanda

It is all over the web, there are about 50 mentions of this on Reddit, there might be another bubble out there, except it doesn’t feel like one. See back when there was that other bubble, I lived in another country, was there for more than a month a year, and things looked very different. It is easier to pick up somethings when you live in a country when everyone wants to be a part of the bubble, as fast as possible, without care. I was talking to Itay (who has finally posted another blog post) about this earlier today (also about lots of other things, but those are unimportant), and he was pointing out all these subtle clues in the CS department that I am missing. Clues about all the people who want to start startups, clue about all the startups, clues about how the holly grail of achieving anything currently is being bought out. Maybe there is a bubble going on, maybe it is a nicer bubble, what with people paying for things in cash and not stocks, but it certainly does not look the same on the other side. There are no crazy NIIT posters about bullshit that doesn’t help anything, there are no crazy people getting crazy certificates. There are the standard crazy sums of money all the people are being paid to work, but those numbers sound pretty much at par with what I heard last year. Bubbles look different from different places.

I am TAing 167/9 next semester, along with being a lot of work, this should be fairly fun. Woohoo.

Ze Panda

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