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People with computer related degrees?
by galangalalgol 3y ago
People with computer related degrees?
- hobs 3y agoI still remember my google buddy talking about being aghast his intern (who was a CS major who obviously passed with flying colors and went to stanford or yale, I dont remember) not knowing what an IP address was.
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- fuzztester 3y agoI've conducted interviews of professed Unix devs or sysadmins, some years ago, who didn't know what the setuid bit was, or confused it with the sticky bit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit
- fuzztester 3y agoSome. One was Comp. Engg. Not sure if any CS.
- bityard 3y agoHeh. These days, a computer science degree is essentially equivalent to a coding degree. But depending on the decade and curriculum, it was traditionally a branch of mathematics and one could theoretically go all the way to PhD while never actually touching a practical computer. There used to be a saying: Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. And that is why in this article, ESR has titled it, Things Every _Hacker_ Once Knew. Hackers usually have some sort of passion for the technology itself and want to understand ALL of the practical details and history of a thing. Hackers are _very much_ about computers.