Comments by "Inconspicuous Chap" (@InconspicuousChap) on "Travis Media" channel.

  1. The author is not meaning "self-taught to PhD", he is talking about "self-taught to writing some sloppy apps". Suppose a guy pretending to be a proper biologist after dissecting a few frogs at home and learning a few random fragmented statements from a biology book. That's what majoiry of self-taught programmers are.
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  2. It's funny how everyone sticks to one specific language (usually the only one they know) these days. In 1990s it was like: "We have got a bunch of code to migrate from platform A to platform B and from language X to language Y. You don't know the language X? Well, the project is 7 months long, which is more than enough time to learn it and migrate those 500'000 lines of code". I've been quite fluent in 3 programming languages even before applying for a trainee position at my first job, and that was sort of normal. Now indeed everyone is pigeonholed with a language sticker on them. It's like a Babel language confusion. Had to create 2 CVs differing only in the language name in the title, otherwise recruitment simply can't match them to a position.
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  3. I'd bet self-taught or language course-taught developers have no slightest idea of what you mean in "sign 3".
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  4. ​ @salimbendag6274  Talents can exist. People could learn math. People could develop math knowledge independently of the mainstream; that's what we are taught to do at universities - all that complicated stuff can be derived from the basic principles. Only we have to live in a certain real environment where most IT newcomers are there for quickmoney and not because they are interested in the scientific part of it.
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