Basho's Chief Architect here. I was talking about self-taught programmers and companies irrational bias towards people with CS degrees. I didn't say "lie and

Basho's Chief Architect here. I was talking about self-taught programmers and companies irrational bias towards people with CS degrees. I didn't say "lie and misrepresent", I said "BS and charm". It was a rephrasing of an earlier tweet of mine: https://twitter.com/argv0/statuses/222618738250350592 https://twitter.com/argv0/statuses/222618738250350592 My main point was that all this stuff can be learned without a degree, but should always be learned, and that these jobs mainly require skills not taught in school; that charm goes a long way, etc. Your parsing of what I said is unfortunate and your characterization of what I was espousing ('sociopathic', 'cheaters') is wrong. EDIT: Try to interpret what I said in a positive way. I was talking about personal intellectual growth, not obtaining things you don't deserve via lies. I was talking only about bootstrapping yourself into a career you want - of course you must then master whatever it is you have set out to do or will be found out and fired. If you want a job and know you can learn it, then obtain that job however you can and prove yourself.