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These discussions are always so stupid. I was a lit major, have worked as a PCB designer, taught myself some coding and all that jazz, and now put around on the
by rfrank 10y ago
These discussions are always so stupid. I was a lit major, have worked as a PCB designer, taught myself some coding and all that jazz, and now put around on the internet doing digital marketing stuff. College major is a terrible indicator of intelligence, work ethic, and so on. Sure, liberal arts majors can be annoying (I probably have a lot more first hand experience with that than you do), but at the same time, plenty of STEM folks write like freshman in high school and start stammering when asked to explain whatever declarative statement they just made further. The condescension from the STEM crowd sure gets old though.
- asimuvPR 10y agoThe attitude from the STEM "crowd" is a real issue. I've experienced it myself while talking to kids about technology. People have interrupted a comverstation just to say that art is stupid. I just change the subject and continue with the conversation. But its really hard to motivate kids and young people to be creative with such an idiotic attitude. We don't need more engineers, programmers or whatever. We need more creative people with drive. Period.
- wcummings 10y agoPeople like this are why I don't like to call myself an "engineer" anymore. They've ruined the word for me. I spent a year at WPI, and its fucking lousy with these stuck up losers, sharing lame "engineering memes" putting down lib arts majors. Mind you, these were not even engineers, just engineering students, most of whom hadn't built a single useful thing in their life outside of school.
- personjerry 10y agoI'm not certain, but aren't these memes always done tongue-in-cheek?
- rfrank 10y agolol, definitely not.
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- wcummings 10y agoi wish
- asimuvPR 10y agoCertainly not always. Even mentioning Visual Basic, Perl, Lisp, or .NET around these parts tends to work like a sort of bat signal for similar comments/memes. And that's in a forum where a lot of the people who visit code. Imagine a place where you have different interests mixed in. By the way, I will say it: I like .NET. My first paying job was in Visual Basic / C#. Used to spend nights writing Perl. Lisp is not special, but it is powerful.
- bobdole1234 10y agoWait. Did you just make a broad generalization about people because you're pissed off you've heard broad generalizations about people?
- nikdaheratik 10y agoI agree about how insipid these discussions can get. The bottom line is there is no degree requirement that guarantees the individual possesses curiosity about our world or an ability to grasp and then explain complex ideas. What clouds the discussion even further is that many of the people involved are far enough removed from that time in their life that they can't remember what they knew or didn't know about anything. I look back and think about how much I could have learned if I had spent less time doing things like video games, or watching sports or whatever, without realizing that so much has changed in 15+ years that alot of what I find interesting may not have been invented then. Or if it was, it wasn't that important to me.