{"id":361,"date":"2008-11-13T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-11-13T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T23:09:38","slug":"the-best-agnostic-way-to-make-money-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/the-best-agnostic-way-to-make-money-in-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best, Agnostic Way To Make Money In Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing disappointing about <a href=\"http:\/\/learn2code.pbwiki.com\/\">teaching Ruby<\/a> is all the idiosyncracies with any modern scripting language.<\/p>\n<p>Very often a project will fail because of some random, idiosyncracy in a particular piece of technology. Very often, the idiosyncracy is just an excuse.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is the best, technology agnostic way to make money in tech?<\/p>\n<p>Learn one algorithm, learn it well, and then apply it to a problem that saves a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a world of plenty bubble sorts, select sorts, and even the rare bogosorts just begging to be turned into cash and time saving quicksorts.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is learning how to do that in a business setting. More on that later. For now&#8230; learn one of these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quicksort\">Quicksort<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mergesort\">Mergesort<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/algorithms\/sorting\/MergeSort.phps\">my implementation in PHP<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or choose your own and really, really figure out how to turn it into a business proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, a lot of companies with cash have this sort of thing going on:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px; color: #fff; background: #000\">\nwhile not InOrder(deck) do Shuffle(deck); #lols\n<\/div>\n<p>So if you could just choose one algorithm and turn it into a business proposition, which one would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing disappointing about teaching Ruby is all the idiosyncracies with any modern scripting language. Very often a project will fail because of some random, idiosyncracy in a particular piece of technology. Very often, the idiosyncracy is just an excuse. So, what is the best, technology agnostic way to make money in tech? Learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}