The one piece of information that every software engineer needs to know

by Michael (michael@code4life.com)

Time travel is eventually going to happen. We're eventually going to be trust back in time, maybe 100 or 1000 years. It'll be against our will, no doubt. As a software engineer, I'm a man born for this time. We software engineers don't have any marketable skills prior to the 1950s. We'd be useless to the Roman Empire. A modern day architect or carpenter or plumber would be a god in the Roman Empire and well beyond past Feudalism. Us CS majors...well, we could design an awesome website for the St. Benedictine Monks, but they'd have to wait 1500 years to get it hosted.

The one thing every software engineer needs to know to be competitive in the distant to the not so distant past...I'm thinking it's how to make dynamite. It's not perfect. It was invented in 1866, so there's a small gap until the industrial revolution when you can invest in the stock market (sell before 1929).

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