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Re:Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the dat... by umanwizard on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:31AM (#19367902)
This would be unnecessarily harsh even if it were true.

It’s not, though. I know a data scientist who studied Arabic language. And software engineers who studied music.

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Re:Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the dat... by petty_griper on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:15PM (#19371251)
There are plenty of studious music majors, plenty of liberal arts majors capable of catching up with their C.S. major peers with a year or so of dedicated study, and plenty of people who party hard and are still qualified and capable to do the work that you do.

Your comment reads more like sour grapes about your own college experience than anything else ;)