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The 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 j
by asimuvPR 10y ago
The 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?