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Re:How to Interview Engineers by dvnguyen on Monday June 26, 2017 @03:57PM (#14639828)
What you've described is someone who follow some practices religiously. I don't see any correlation between people like that and ones with academic background.
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Re:How to Interview Engineers by qb45 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @08:42AM (#14644827)
I'm afraid academia may produce religion. After all, it's a place where they show you a bunch of tricks, you practice them in simplified applications and then risk leaving with a belief that you actually understand shit.

A recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14267555

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