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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by RichardCA on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:12PM (#24843246)
Funny you should mention that. At my college (Cal Poly) I had fraternity brothers who were Civil Engineering majors. They would look up to me because I had a natural ease with computers. But in the end, I watched them sweat their way through classes that would have wasted me.
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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by phlipski on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:20PM (#24844459)
This the engineering corollary of "The grass is always greener". For engineers it's "The other engineering disciplines are always harder"!
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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by RichardCA on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:49AM (#24845646)
Which is another way of saying that the "advanced" subjects (vector calculus, multivariable calculus, fourier transforms) really aren't that bad if you're prepared to put the work in.
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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by astura on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:10PM (#24852791)
Probably because most people choose to study what comes easy to them.
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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by RichardCA on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:16PM (#24854289)
I think the key is finding an intuitive way to grasp the subject matter, and then it doesn't feel like such a grind.

If material like this had been available 20 years ago it would have made a huge difference.

https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by srtjstjsj on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:33PM (#24844046)
Many engineering fields are ones were being studious and knowledgeable can give you a solid career. Software development has a lot more upside potential for the flexibly creative and the lucky.
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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by nafey on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:05AM (#24846030)
I feel this is less and less true for Frontend Development which is constantly evolving and you need to put in some serious effort to stay up to date.
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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by sk2020 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:39AM (#24848301)
If you can do both, I highly recommend it. Programming abilities can multiply your productivity in another field several times.
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