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Nathan A. Stineyes, British English is "realise"
American English is "realize"
nigelnope. American English is wrong; it butchered English just to be different and ignores the root words that the English words are derived from.
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Gord@nixCraft And if you're self taught when you're a kid, you skip to the Ph.D stage before you're in college.
Wayne Dixon@nixCraft And when you really understand how the internet works you wonder “How does this actually work as well as it does. In reality it shouldn’t, but somehow it does…”
Stumpy The Mutt@nixCraft I went to school to earn a B.S. C.S. degree so I would know enough to develop software. When I finally received my diploma I realized that all it really taught me was that the field was infinitely large.
kwayk42@nixCraft electricity is magic and computers are more magicky magic. Also the Brits still call transistors 'valves'
wbftw@nixCraft "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing."
Light Owl ☸️@nixCraft I'm curious which of the three you yourself have, if any.
Super Ratboy 64@nixCraft this is every discipline
Tim Desjardins@nixCraft Knowledge is power
ZAC@nixCraft I went to the school of HARD KNOCKS and got my DD-214. Does this count?
dummzeuch@nixCraft which is not restricted to computer science nor university degrees.
François 🇺🇦well we all know what BS means.
MS is more of the same and PhD Piled up Higher 😉
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@nixCraft I didn't know that
lne@nixCraft and if you're socrates you knew it all along
Justin Derrick@nixCraft Yup, each year I learn so much more - only to realize how little I actually know. It’s like digging a wider well - you can see more water, but it’s only knee deep.
LR@nixCraft so if i already know that no one knows anything, i don't even have to start studying, right?
Seth BrownNot having had the advantage of a university education, but decades of experience in IT, I've boiled it down to
"Everything you know, is a lie".
The only source of truth is the compiler.
Jeff GriggTurns out, there's lots of B.S. in Computer Science.
out there in the field
or "cow pasture" as some call it.
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Stephan Neuhaus@nixCraft Can confirm all three.