Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "TechLead" channel.

  1. I agree that STEM degrees are pointless, but not for the reason you think. Everything they teach you can learn on your own and for free, if you're committed enough to do so. However, if you're worried about not needing to know how to implement qsort or binary trees in your daily work, then your teachers failed to teach you why you should know how to do these things. It's not about being able to implement them on a whim because 99% of us will never need that ability, but rather about using the basic knowledge of how to implement algorithms and translate their forms. That knowledge is something that 100% of developers need. Also, it's difficult to tell when you're being sarcastic, assuming you were at those points, because you maintained a fairly even monotone. For anyone who might happen to read this, I refer to the point about doing sudokus and using AWS, as a sudoku will have a variable difficulty while AWS has no difficulty at all. Point and click "development" doesn't require any intelligence to do and you'll never need a degree to be capable of doing it, even if a job requires it. If someone wants to get into the industry, it truthfully doesn't even require a degree. There will always be plenty of jobs because most people think you can just throw better hardware at the problem and use garbage code, but we'll always need people who understand the inner workings to properly optimize things.
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