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Re:OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer s... by detaro on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:42AM (#27746067)
Who cares? The academic community is often alienating everybody who is not in academia, degree or not. And where it isn't, it doesn't care if you have a degree or not.
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Re:OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer s... by throwawayobvs on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:47AM (#27746565)
The hard truth is that there isn't much "science" in most computer "science" jobs. The world needs brick layers too. Nothing wrong with that as such, but confusing computer scientists with programming workers is one of the root causes for the software mess these days.
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Re:OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer s... by larodi on Monday July 12, 2021 @09:19AM (#27809928)
self-educated know-it-alls are much more responsible for the appalling level of alienation of people in IT in general. since so many people are self-taught they are eventually not learned into exchanging knowledge with other humans.
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