Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by BrendanEich on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:27AM
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My high school AP credits let me waive a bunch of Freshman math and science so I took philosophy, theology, etc. courses at SCU. Pirsig was assigned in one of the philosophy classes.
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Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by brailsafe on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:00AM
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I'm still gradually working on my undergrad. Most times when I'm out of work as a developer I return and complete some of my coursework. As time goes on, I'm finding a much stronger interest in the less-testable and more human oriented classes such as those you mention, but also History, language, and cultural geography. Meanwhile the CS courses are the ones that I'm struggling to be drawn towards; particularly as some of the former desirable compabies to work at face more and more human ethical dilemmas where the computer bit isn't the complicated bit. I suppose since it was my intense motivation to design and build websites that got me in various doors without a degree, as those things become more commodified, it would be expected to look elsewhere for that inspiration, but did you ever find that true for yourself?
Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by mjgs on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:21AM
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Philosophy and theology on a comp sci course is pretty wild, and I guess a good place to meet folks from other departments?
Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by BrendanEich on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:19AM
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As noted in the interview, I was a Physics major for the first three years. Also in the Honors Program, which helped get in some of the non-science classes.
Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by mjgs on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:26AM
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I mentioned you in my latest javascript, technology and web development newsletter.
https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-20...
I’d be honoured to have you as a reader, no pressure though, I bet you are super busy, and you probably get a zillion requests like this.