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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by jacquesm on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:29PM (#50142544)
You mean as opposed to the IT world where we all excel in transparency and clear terminology?

How is that Bloom filter written in Rust using Agile coming along?

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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by hbcdbff on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:31PM (#50142564)
SWE is the most transparent and ungatekept field in human history and it isn’t even close
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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by j2kun on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:21PM (#50144366)
--sent from emacs
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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by jryle70 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:43PM (#50143375)
You've been here long enough, I'm sure you could remember all of the posts complaining about the quality of coding bootcamps, that it was too easy for outsiders to learn software development. Is that your idea of gatekeeping?
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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by j2kun on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:20PM (#50144357)
Coding boot camps were notorious examples of failures and grifts. They did not produce meaningful quantities of software engineers.
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