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(MORE: Reboot the School) Meanwhile, tech companies are so desperate for talent that — in the face of a worker shortage partly due to the H-1B visa cap — a company is planning to build an 1,800-person floating city for foreign entrepreneurs in international waters off the coast of San Francisco. Why the disconnect? Why isn’t computer science a core course? Tech Repair. Anybody can learn.
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