Soup-Like Gender Homogenate ✅Apr 23, 2017

So a tweet I made today on Birdsite blew up. Specifically this:

"When engineering is about “solving interesting problems” and never about why these are problems, you get stuff like Uber.”

I think it touched a nerve. But it’s true. Like the whole Jeff Goldblum line in Jurassic Park, developers all preoccupied about whether they could do a thing and not about whether they should.

And this is a huge. fucking. problem.

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Also interesting that so many of the tech companies pulling gross, unethical shit are run by the same tech douchebag CEOs who push the “College is for losers” narrative.

Because heaven forfend we teach developers critical thinking skills about the world. Just shut up, write your algorithms, and think about your stock options.

Apr 23, 2017 at 11:45pmWeb
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(Why, yes, I do have a Liberal Arts degree, how ever did you guess?)
Show threadguretsuguApr 23, 2017
@sanspoint It's also fun that while their leaders are like "fuck college, I'm great with no degree" and yet their companies won't hire you without 2 degrees and 2 millennia of related experience.