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His words: "I am also self-taught. I never got a degree of any kind. I entered the industry at the tender age of 17 and never looked back. Frankly, school i

by Shorel 3y ago

His words: "I am also self-taught. I never got a degree of any kind. I entered the industry at the tender age of 17 and never looked back. Frankly, school isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — especially in the software field." https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1072125758548688896?lang=en https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/107212575854868889... Which means his opinions are more often than not uninformed opinions and should be taken with a grain of salt.

fijiaarone 3y ago
When you turn 23 in a couple years, you’ll look back at college and realize you weren’t at the apex of all knowledge back then.
sph 3y ago
I think you overestimate college education a little too much. Having a degree doesn't make your opinions automatically better than those that didn't have the chance to get one. You wish it did, but it don't.
- Shorel 3y ago
  My remark is not about the quality of college education. It's about his mindset. You don't need a college education to read research articles, books and journals. But you certainly need an open mind and some discipline to not try to reinvent the wheel all the time. You need to learn about the state of the art in your field. Some ideas and algorithms are proven and battle tested, and people should learn about them, before trying to create something new and claim it is much better than the old thing. This is very noticeable in some fields like cryptography. His modus operandi certainly seems to be on the other extreme, everything old is bad and the new thing around the corner is going to change everything. Which causes a lot of people who believe him to collectively waste millions of hours of their time. About your comments on the degree... it really depends on how you got it. For most people, I would agree with you. A small group of people in academia are insanely smart and are focused on research.

by Shorel 3y ago

fijiaarone 3y ago

When you turn 23 in a couple years, you’ll look back at college and realize you weren’t at the apex of all knowledge back then.

sph 3y ago

I think you overestimate college education a little too much. Having a degree doesn't make your opinions automatically better than those that didn't have the chance to get one. You wish it did, but it don't.

Shorel 3y ago
My remark is not about the quality of college education. It's about his mindset. You don't need a college education to read research articles, books and journals. But you certainly need an open mind and some discipline to not try to reinvent the wheel all the time. You need to learn about the state of the art in your field. Some ideas and algorithms are proven and battle tested, and people should learn about them, before trying to create something new and claim it is much better than the old thing. This is very noticeable in some fields like cryptography. His modus operandi certainly seems to be on the other extreme, everything old is bad and the new thing around the corner is going to change everything. Which causes a lot of people who believe him to collectively waste millions of hours of their time. About your comments on the degree... it really depends on how you got it. For most people, I would agree with you. A small group of people in academia are insanely smart and are focused on research.