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That argument is terrible. If you are smart enough to program weapons systems for a defense contractor then you are smart enough to make money doing something e
by 3131s 10y ago
That argument is terrible. If you are smart enough to program weapons systems for a defense contractor then you are smart enough to make money doing something else.
- raverbashing 10y agoThe issue is convincing the other people that someone who does that doesn't need to be an "Angular Ninja" or know by heart the complexity of several sorting algorithms
- bartread 10y agoThis. I understand that sometimes you might need somebody who can hit the ground running with a particular piece of technology but, most of the time, what you need is a competent engineer, regardless of whether they are currently intimately familiar with your technology du jour.
- elastic_church 10y agoOnly because it has no bounds, like most schools of ethics, but it is responsible financially in this society and Op doesnt work there anymore
- retox 10y agoI was fresh out of uni, teaching Ada and C++ best practice, along with toolkit and processes. Literally spent my last penny getting to the job interview, then lived on credit and supermarket end-of-day markdowns for six months.