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The personal attack aside, pointing to the exception is never a good argument.
by eldaisfish 4y ago
The personal attack aside, pointing to the exception is never a good argument.
- Apocryphon 4y agoIt's not a rare exception, there's a whole class of programming autodidacts, boot campers, physics majors and electrical engineers who pivoted to software. Often the argument against credentialism in the field is to protect such people.
- eldaisfish 4y agothe limited point i was making is that soft skills are easier to pick up as you go along. Software is now approaching that same state. This does not apply to an English major learning the nuance of - say, aviation turbine design. Some fields require extensive study and lots of foundational knowledge.