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Last time this got discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1053753 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1053753 someone in this comment: http://news.yc
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Last time this got discussed:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1053753 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1053753
someone in this comment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054048 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054048
said:
"especially for a web developer" is the important part.
As a fellow web developer, I agree. I'd certainly like
to get into the mathier side of programming someday, but
it's rarely necessary for my day-to-day operations.
That misses the point entirely. How do you know it would be useful if you don't have any? And do you only, ever, and always want to be a web programmer?
Why limit your options?
- jonhendry 16y ago"Why limit your options?" I suspect that focusing on mathy programming jobs would tend to limit your job options, at least in most regions of the US.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoPeople seem regularly to assume that getting good at math means you therefore need to do mathy programming jobs. That's exactly what almost every comment here is trying to refute. It's not doing math that limits your options. I've never seen a prgramming job that wouldn't benefit from the programmers knowing more math. Every programming job I've seen has benefited from more math. And I've seen a lot of programming jobs, Including ATC, weather forecasting, financial, CRUD, web scraping, automotive and more. Even gathering data from a database and presenting it in a template has occasionally benefited from a bit of obscure math. It's just that people who think math is arithmetic, formulas, equations, calculations and calculus don't realize what they're missing, and just how widely applicable it is.