The Insomniac Coder

Image by pvera via Flickr The Rise and Rise of the Cognitive Elite : "hessian writes 'As technology advances, the rewards to cleverness increase. Computers have hugely increased the availability of information, raising the demand for those sharp enough to make sense of it. In 1991 the average wage for a male American worker with a bachelor's degree was 2.5 times that of a high-school drop-out; now the ratio is 3. Cognitive skills are at a premium, and they are unevenly distributed.'" Maybe I am not awake enough, but the way I read this is "smart people make more money now than 20 years ago, and there isn't that many of them." Is this newsworthy? Unfair? A shock? I really don't get which part of this is newsworthy, unless it is using weasel words to lead people into another "why should college grads make more money" arguments. Or maybe it is trying to be all of the above.  Related articles The rise and rise of the cognitive elite ...

Image via Wikipedia Maybe the times are really a-changin', because when I was a child it was completely forbidden to mix-up languages . Our teachers would downright scream at us if we for example were speaking Spanish and (out of laziness) used an English word when there was a Spanish one available. All languages borrow words from others, for example Spanish has a lot of Arabic -influenced words but these had been official additions to the language, so it was acceptable.  Higher in the getting yelled a phase was Spanglish , which I find so irritating because I spent years learning proper English. 99% of the Spanglish that we run into is more a direct result of laziness than lack of proper knowledge of the language.  What we are having now is even worse. I am not even worried about people saying " google " instead of search (ask Xerox about this), the problem is that people are getting too sloppy with their writing, because they don't understand context. Just beca...