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Note to self: sarcasm on the Internet usually doesn't work. I'm not serious. The primary thrust hat people who have taken the math required by an undergraduat
by vonmoltke 12y ago
Note to self: sarcasm on the Internet usually doesn't work.
I'm not serious. The primary thrust hat people who have taken the math required by an undergraduate computer science or engineering degree can probably see at a glance that the typical startup salary offer is shit. Thus, I sarcastically suggested we should remove math from the CS curriculum in order to make graduates less able to understand this.[1]
I did so in a way that was also supposed to caricature the "programming doesn't need math" crowd, but apparently I came off as a member of the crowd. I was hoping that my sarcasm would be indicated by throwing in "whiteboard coding" as something a degree should cover. That so many people thought what I intended to be caricature was serious worries me.
[1] Hence the reason I said "abundance of math skills"; potential candidates know too much to be suckered.