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> "I don't know why we keep passing around this kind of anti-intellectual, faux-controversial drivel." There is a rather vocal minority in this community who t
by Crito 12y ago
> "I don't know why we keep passing around this kind of anti-intellectual, faux-controversial drivel."
There is a rather vocal minority in this community who think that attending universities is a waste of time. These people are naturally interested in notion that things commonly taught in universities, but frequently glossed over when self-teaching or at "hacker schools", are not necessary.
- alanh 12y ago> not necessary No education is necessary, but that doesn’t make it devoid of value. Speaking as a US citizen, I truly believe what my country and countless others around the globe desperately need is better and accessible education, absolutely including the Arts. The opposing viewport can likely be called anti-intellectual in fairness.
- Crito 12y agoPerhaps I should have mentioned that I am not a member of this minority. If I am hiring for a developer position, I consider at least a basic knowledge of complexity to be necessary. There are too many developers who are familiar with it for me to waste my time on ones that are not. I am not speaking of "necessary" in a universal sense, since that would be nearly impossible to define and a useless concept even if we could. If we really get down to it, breathing isn't necessary...