alt Hacker NewsSo do I. According to today’s prevalent tech/science culture, “everyone” should
- write their own network stack, compiler, text editor, operating system
- learn 3-5 foreign languages
- travel extensively
- learn how computers work from the silicon principles to the userspace
- have a complete understanding of algorithms and data structures before even attempting to build anything, because nothing else will do
- read obscure Russian poetry
- “deeply” engage in 5-10 different philosophical practices and meditation techniques
- work out regularly, but according to strictly scientific principles, which you first have to research by reading a dozen books
- appreciate fine art, homestead food, and family life
Sorry folks, y’all are just Instagrammers with MSc’s. Most people here probably have no idea how ridiculous this world appears once you step out for a year or two and then take a look back in.
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Yes, everyone should explore the details of the technology they build on top of, and also should explore questions about what it means to be a person or how the world works.
What’s wrong with aspiring to do any or even all of those things? Those sound like nice things.
It was a joke if you read the article.
Glad to see you two read only the title, not the article; that fulfills the cliche.
And in your list you forgot taking a lecture in category theory.
That's a great list actually.
Let's invert it.
Everyone should: be computer illiterate, monolingual, never leave their home town, use left-pad, be regular illiterate, sedentary, uncultured, unlanded, and... alienated from their family?
Well, I'm off to a great start!