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At the end of the day I have no respect for a person who cannot take the time to learn CS Basics...If a technical guy can read Steve Blank,Clayton Christensen,H

At the end of the day I have no respect for a person who cannot take the time to learn CS Basics...If a technical guy can read Steve Blank,Clayton Christensen,Hayek and Friedman....a non-techie can definitely read The Art of Computer Programming if he intends to run a software business.....coming up with nonsensical excuses will not help!..Here are some common excuses. 1) I need to have a degree in Engineering Well not really...Myself and all the best programmers I have known have learnt very little from educational institutions than they have from man pages. 2) Little Knowledge can be dangerous Yes...it can be but noone is asking you to be en expert....by learning the basics you will only begin to understand the complexity of the problems being solved and will learn when to open your mouth and when not to...saying things like "lets move to the cloud" or "lets do this in an agile manner" without having a clue only makes you look bad! 3) It is not my cup of tea. Noone is asking you to become Linus Torvalds...at least try to know as much as some kid in high school would...If you dont have the thirst for knowledge to begin with,you are in the wrong business!

freemarketteddy 15y ago
Disagree?...Would love to know why!
psykotic 15y ago
> If a technical guy can read Steve Blank,Clayton Christensen,Hayek and Friedman....a non-techie can definitely read The Art of Computer Programming What utter nonsense. The theoretical difficulty of pop-economics books like Hayek's Economics In One Lesson or The Road to Serfdom is less than Teach Yourself Programming In 24 Hours. That's not meant as a slight on any of those books or their authors, but your comparison is so inapt it beggars belief. The mathematical prerequisites alone for reading TAOCP are so significant that Knuth had to write an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level textbook (Concrete Mathematics) to equip students with even a small subset of the tools required.
- freemarketteddy 15y ago
  Kummon....its not that hard!...a sufficiently motivated person can definitely read and finish it....but yes maybe I should have taken an easier example.
- longlivedeath 15y ago
  > Hayek's Economics In One Lesson s/Hayek/Hazlitt/

freemarketteddy 15y ago

Disagree?...Would love to know why!

psykotic 15y ago

> If a technical guy can read Steve Blank,Clayton Christensen,Hayek and Friedman....a non-techie can definitely read The Art of Computer Programming What utter nonsense. The theoretical difficulty of pop-economics books like Hayek's Economics In One Lesson or The Road to Serfdom is less than Teach Yourself Programming In 24 Hours. That's not meant as a slight on any of those books or their authors, but your comparison is so inapt it beggars belief. The mathematical prerequisites alone for reading TAOCP are so significant that Knuth had to write an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level textbook (Concrete Mathematics) to equip students with even a small subset of the tools required.

freemarketteddy 15y ago
Kummon....its not that hard!...a sufficiently motivated person can definitely read and finish it....but yes maybe I should have taken an easier example.
longlivedeath 15y ago
> Hayek's Economics In One Lesson s/Hayek/Hazlitt/