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If you read this, definitely follow up by reading the (more recent) response: https://medium.com/@eytanadar/on-the-value-of-command-line-bullshittery-94dc19ec8c

• analog31 11y ago
  This follow up article is definitely worth reading. But just to put things in perspective, I got my degree in physics, and I overcame bullshitteries in programming, plumbing, machining, electronics, mechanics, bike repair, and so forth. I think that part of the value, if not the major part, is that at the PhD level, you're given a problem that is ill defined, that your advisor doesn't know how to solve, and whose solution doesn't necessarily come entirely from within your field. Though I was a physics student, solving my thesis problem required developing skills beyond my advisor's own expertise, in areas such as electronics and programming. I had to invent a solution that he had not imagined. It helped a lot that those things were also my hobbies. Which brings us to this reality. One day, and I pretty much guarantee it will happen, your student will download something from the Web and they will get stuck. You don't know stuck until it's actually on fire. ;-)
  • digi_owl 11y ago
    > You don't know stuck until it's actually on fire. ;-) Reads like a line from the "things i won't work with" section of In the Pipeline.