pyramid

Because they grew up with a ton of grains on the bottom of the officially government sponsored food pyramid.

It's just that much of the 'innovation' is in a selection of domains with an emphasis on get-rich-quick pyramid schemes.

You are at the tip of a pyramid of privilege that expands backwards in time.

As a result, the experience level at a company matches the structure pyramid.

The development world, like most others, is a bit of a pyramid.

Sure, there are sections of the socioeconomic pyramid that will pay a strong premium for even marginally better, smoother service but the majority of the pyramid (a surprisingly large majority) will not pay such a premium.

As those at the bottom age, they find themselves competing with other programmers their age for far fewer jobs toward the top of the pyramid.

It's one giant pyramid with the BIS at the capstone.

The food pyramid is a perfect example of this flaw.

I wonder how much of the mobile app market is a pyramid scheme.

That isn't the real reason, it's that the bottom of that food pyramid is cheap, they're used everywhere as fillers, and they make that cheap food more palatable.

When they fall off, they have a hard time back on the management ladder because of of all the competition from other management (the ladder is pyramid shaped, not linear, so it gets narrower as you go up).

Just a giant "pyramid" scheme to milk money out of the late comers, just like the housing market.

Its natural inclination is toward Bernie Madoff-like pyramid, where consolidation and cartel-like cooperation among "a few" (the Brokers and Agents) hurts "the many".

Nonetheless, I disagree that there's an emphasis on "get-rich-quick pyramid schemes." More than anything, market forces (return on capital, profitability, etc.) play a strong role in determining the direction a concept will go.

I think they'd probably be a terrible audience to market to if you're selling teeth whitener or pyramid scheme "Google pays me $1000/hr from home!" things, but if you've got something useful to show them (like a webapp that they would like) then you're going to be buying a lot of eyeballs for not a lot of money.

Pyramid is one of the most well designed codebase that I know.