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You mean CS is unimportant for 99% of all code monkeys. But it is absolutely necessary for bleeding edge development and creating libraries that people who deem CS unimportant. It’s like saying that math is a complete waste of time because no programmer needs more than school algebra ever. True? Absolutely! Do we still need math? If you married rich or grew up rich then it’s a nice brain teaser. Otherwise touch grass.


Ah yes, you’ll forget almost everything learned at school, so just close down close right? Why stop smoking and getting drunk all the time when you die anyway?


I don’t think that anecdotal evidence benefits the evidence behind psychedelic therapies. I lost a lot of weight by eating gummy bears around the same time I started to exercise and eat less. Is that a convincing argument for gummy bears as a weight loss tool? They weren’t keto either.


About three fiddy


But le software is le eating le heckin worlderino


Absolutely this. All great writers were extremely prolific and disciplined about their craft with no exception. This whole myth about some genius lying on the table and thinking about the order of arranging words is a myth that romanticizes the act of writing.


I think that many games are just too expensive on their platform and the interface is all over the place. There are so many options and covers which completely overwhelm the average user and they end up buying nothing.


Product owner, scrum master and everything agile is the essence of a bullshit job.


This article could have been 1/8th of its length and the message would still be clear. Modern writing is vague, overly detailed and inelegant.


Not really; as evidence, look at the number of comments here that failed to get the point.

When you present a viewpoint to people whose profession and living depend on believing something contrary to it, it's necessary to present a lot of evidence and solid reasoning to get even a small number of the smartest of such people to consider your point.


>le technology le bad

This is the most boomer thing I read on this platform and that says a lot.


Says a lot about you and how you think, not the platform.


Ok boomer. How you respond to the comment says a lot about you and how you think.


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