> If a technical guy can read Steve Blank,Clayton Christensen,Hayek and Friedman....a non-techie can definitely read The Art of Computer Programming
What utter nonsense. The theoretical difficulty of pop-economics books like Hayek's Economics In One Lesson or The Road to Serfdom is less than Teach Yourself Programming In 24 Hours. That's not meant as a slight on any of those books or their authors, but your comparison is so inapt it beggars belief. The mathematical prerequisites alone for reading TAOCP are so significant that Knuth had to write an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level textbook (Concrete Mathematics) to equip students with even a small subset of the tools required.
Re:Fear of Ignorance
by longlivedeath on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:16AM
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> Hayek's Economics In One Lesson
s/Hayek/Hazlitt/
Re:Fear of Ignorance
by freemarketteddy on Monday November 21, 2011 @03:00PM
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Kummon....its not that hard!...a sufficiently motivated person can definitely read and finish it....but yes maybe I should have taken an easier example.
Re:Fear of Ignorance
by freemarketteddy on Monday November 21, 2011 @01:56AM
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Disagree?...Would love to know why!
1) I need to have a degree in Engineering
Well not really...Myself and all the best programmers I have known have learnt very little from educational institutions than they have from man pages.
2) Little Knowledge can be dangerous
Yes...it can be but noone is asking you to be en expert....by learning the basics you will only begin to understand the complexity of the problems being solved and will learn when to open your mouth and when not to...saying things like "lets move to the cloud" or "lets do this in an agile manner" without having a clue only makes you look bad!
3) It is not my cup of tea.
Noone is asking you to become Linus Torvalds...at least try to know as much as some kid in high school would...If you dont have the thirst for knowledge to begin with,you are in the wrong business!