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> Education is (see coursera), but the "educational reputation" industry isn't. Technology isn't killing off the rep of a harvard degree.

Coursera is not disrupting the reputation of a Harvard degree. Github is disrupting the reputation of a Harvard degree. There are plenty of businesses today that have absolutely no concern for your education of you have alternative proof that you can put out solid, high-quality results, and it's the internet's high information density that's making that possible.




Github has helped make programming a bit more meritocratic I guess, but it's not like it's destroyed the relative value of a degree from Stanford or Harvard.

And it's only made headway in computer science jobs.




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