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A subset of the "self-made" myth is that of the "self-taught". There are very few people (like the great lost mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan) who discover th
by mshenfield 10y ago
A subset of the "self-made" myth is that of the "self-taught". There are very few people (like the great lost mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan) who discover the things they know off of first principles, intuition, and curiosity.
- lordnacho 10y agoDoesn't self-taught normally mean you didn't attend classes at some institution?
- throwaway729 10y agoYes, which is an equally stupid false dichotomy. All of the best programmers are I know are both self-taught programmers (in the sense that they learned how to program prior to attending any classes about programming), and also college-educated computer scientists.