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Re:Do Developers Need College Degrees? on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:57PM (#13701468)
> I laugh when webdevs call themselves engineers.

The really funny thing is asking a computer scientist to engineer a web page.

Re:Do Developers Need College Degrees? on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:51PM (#13701421)
Great point. I've always seen the computer industry completely operates in its own dimension, not like any other industry in history.
Re:Do Developers Need College Degrees? on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:49PM (#13701408)
> I wrote this on hardware and software made by and improved by organizations of highly educated and highly specialized people.

Maybe a lot of that useful hardware and software was not written or designed by people who own a sheepskin?

> It's incredulous to think the future is only going to be built by Lucky Palmers and 16 yo hacker geniuses.

Does a sheepskin enable that type of high quality condescension? I guess it's good for something, eh?