alt Hacker NewsYeah it's demonstrably not required. We can just rule that out by observation. There are a million examples of successful self taught people in software.
Yeah it's demonstrably not required. We can just rule that out by observation. There are a million examples of successful self taught people in software.
If that's the case, then why do we see increased cargo-culting, jumping on to hype trains, and less understanding on computer fundamentals in general that favours more and more abstraction in this field?
It's not like we're in a rush to bring software out there asap, and we still have some people who measure software success by LoC. Something doesn't add up.