Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Travis Media" channel.

@BillClinton228 Why would you want to work for a company that wants you to know any of the above? That stuff is not even programming. That's for boiler plating jobs. ;-)
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Yes, it is, right until you have to solve a real problem and then you are completely lost without it. ;-)
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Why would I even watch a video that starts out with a deceptive title? I already know that whatever comes next comes from a person who can't be trusted. :-)
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That's because they produce exactly what you are saying: software that is full of cracks. ;-)
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They always needed you to have masters and five years of experience OR PhD. That's still the standard requirement. The difficulty is to find the HR person/hiring manager who will drop the five years requirement for you. They are unlikely to drop the masters or PhD. I have NEVER met anybody without a degree on the job. Well, one guy... he basically wrote a science paper that was the equivalent of a five year physics PhD in four weeks and they hired him on the spot even though he never did the oral exam. You are not like that guy. :-)
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So how do you like the fast food service industry? ;-)
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That's exactly what the average conman will say. ;-)
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Depends on what kind of job you want. I have met very few people in the tech field who only had a BBA. There is a reason why they call it "support ENGINEER", even though it's more or less a sales job. You have to know the lingo and the technology, otherwise a tech savvy customer will have a very hard time talking to you. They will immediately feel that your company doesn't care about their concerns if you can't tell them a proper solution to their problems. If you want to work in an Indian call center, then BBA is probably fine.
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@TravisMedia There are rational countries, e.g. in Europe, where higher education is (basically) free. I got a physics PhD from one of the world's best universities and I didn't pay a thing. In the end they paid me more than I ever spent on books and other costs for my masters degree by providing me with several years of a nice teaching assistant salary.
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@TravisMedia My parents did with their taxes. That's no different from them paying for roads, hospitals and the police force, which are all public services that the civilized world needs. The delusion that higher education has to be for the rich only or for people who are willing to get into debt works exclusively in a country like the US which gets most of its educated workforce by immigration. I used to work at a US national lab in the past. On the introductory tour our tour guide pointed out that we would meet scientists from all over the world... half the PhDs in that lab were foreigners at that time. What does that tell you? :-)
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Dude, minimum hiring requirements of a corporation that pays good money for a software engineer are typically masters and five years of industry experience or PhD in CS. Can you handle either? If you are asking stupid questions online... then it's a resounding NO. You are not even close to being able to handle the real world.
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Why do you want to get a low paying job in the tech industry when you can get a high paying one with a mathematics/statistics degree? Assuming that you actually have a mathematics/statistics degree worth mentioning. If not and you are old and failed in your first career, then why would anybody want to hire an aged out and burned out rookie in a different field???? Are you for real???
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Yes, that was bullshit. ;-)
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How many times did you post that bullshit on the internet, already? ;-)
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Sure you are. ;-)
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@WhiteDeVil3 You don't need a CS degree to be worth something. You need a CS education to know what you are doing with a computer, though. Coding and software ENGINEERING are not the same thing. Coding is a tool to support whatever else you are actually doing as a single person. As a physicist I code to get my physics problems solved. As a chemical engineer I code to automate my lab processes etc. But being a software engineer is a profession in which you are expected to get much more complex jobs done on time and on budget while working in large teams. There are a couple more levels to this. The first one is maturity. Almost everybody who thinks that they don't need help with learning is full of it and not nearly mature enough to be a good employee. Yes, there are people who can learn absolutely everything well on their own, but that they are so rare that you are guaranteed not to be one of them. If you don't know this, then you are definitely not mature enough for any job. The second one is time. A four year degree gives you four years of time to fail, and then fail again and to keep learning while you keep failing. A PhD gives you eight to ten years. Those are years during which you acquire the very experience that you are talking about. Does an employer want to give you four years of education in failing while you are learning on the job? Of course not. They want you to have all of that out of your system by the time you show up for your job.
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@WhiteDeVil3 Give it a break kid. I would not even hire you with a PhD degree. You have an attitude problem. You don't know what you don't know but you are the best invention since sliced bread... in your own mind. In truth, though, everybody around you knows that you are a failure who overcompensates with bravado. I will give you attention anyway. :-)
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Dude, can you look up on the internet what the typical minimal hiring requirements are? Typically you need masters and five years of experience or a PhD. Do you think that corporations are lying about the kind of people they need or what?
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The new direction is the same as the old direction: you get a masters or a PhD in CS if you want to become a successful software engineer. ;-)
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And why are you doing that? You can't even get a job as a self-taught dishwasher. Somebody has to teach you how to do it right, first. :-)
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That is true right until you have your first interview for an engineering position. A physics PhD is worth five years of industry experience and you are more or less guaranteed to get the job because you are way smarter than any apprentice ever will be. ;-)
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@vitalyl1327 Because you are not a certified engineer and you don't want to be one. You want to solve problems that are not the result of some civil engineering code (building, safety, environmental, transportation etc.) but that involve the design of novel systems or products that are operating at the physical limits. In other words... you want to do the interesting things in life. Yes, you won't be building bridges with a PhD. You might build spacecraft that are flying to Pluto, though. :-)
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@vitalyl1327 Dude, physicists have made measurements with eight to ten digits of precision. Engineers rarely go beyond four. :-)
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@vitalyl1327 My "rules" can describe all of the known universe correctly, child. You don't have to prove to me that you weren't paying attention in high school science class. I already know that. ;-) I know that you would have screwed up, kid. I am a high energy physics PhD, who once had to rescue one of your student projects. You didn't screw up because you were physicists. You screwed up because you were still green behind the ears. ;-)
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Maybe, but most are probably just people with low EQ. They find dealing with machines easier than dealing with people.
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You basically made $300k a year but had all the risk... that's called a failed business where I come from. ;-)
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Sure. All you need is a ticket to another universe.
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Yes, by the worst kind of companies with the worst kind of bosses for the least amount of money. That's a really great career plan you got there.
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@Rami_Zaki-k2b I was in high energy physics, first CERN, then a couple of US national labs, a few years in industry to top my social security off. I interviewed a total of seven times in my life, including for my student jobs and my PhD position. I always got the job. That's the power of a university education. I have never met a self-taught guy in my life. Most of the CS and IT people that I met at my jobs were from MIT and other top schools. I have worked with one military vet who got his degree from the army. He was a really great engineer.. underappreciated, underpaid because he didn't have a degree from a major university. A total waste of talent in my opinion. That's what real life looks like.
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Most employers don't. Many want at least master's degree AND five years of industry experience or PhD. The safe bet is the PhD. It also gives you a lot more confidence.
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@benzemamumba A regular tech job is not a career. It will stay a regular tech job for the rest of your life. You will soon be working for a PhD who is ten or twenty years younger than you. Don't believe me? It happened to me. I was the PhD in that unfortunate relationship but after a year I made more than the guy made after 25 years on the job. I really liked the guy, too, and even wrote a letter to our bosses to have his pay grade upgraded. He deserved it but was caught in a bunch of HR rules that kept him down in the boons, despite his obvious experience and achievements.
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What you will learn in a 4 year CS degree is to think about problems from a proper theoretical perspective. You will get the time to learn algorithms and data structures, machine design and lots of other stuff that a software engineer needs to know. Most importantly it's four years during which you are allowed to make mistakes without a career penalty. Once you are on the job your boss won't even give you four weeks for those.
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It was never valid. Just how naive are you? ;-)
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In other words, you are completely useless as both a teacher (I smell burnout and disenchantment with dealing with stupid students) and as a software engineer (you have zero relevant experience). Anybody who can program can learn Python in a few hours, so why in the world do you think that knowing basic Python is a valuable skill? It's not even a language that a large project should use. Python is a prototyping language. You can solve in-house engineering tasks with it (like test benches) because it's the better scripting language and that's it. Python is NEVER useful for production code and it's NEVER good for a user app (there is not even an easy way to distribute it to users, if you haven't noticed, unless you ship it in a giant container that contains the complete runtime system).
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Desperation doesn't get you hired anywhere, except maybe by local organized crime. To an employer a four year degree means that you have demonstrated that you can stick to something stressful (school) for four years (and not just mere days) without being forced. If you don't understand that then your are just not very smart when it comes to real-life matters.
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@adrianlatham7462 I am telling everybody the same thing. Higher education is part of growing up. It's not a waste of time. It gives you the opportunity to grow in ways that you can't on the job. This delusion that K-12 plus three days of classes are enough to perform a complex job is simply a conjob that prays on the desperate. Even in the deep past (as in antiquity and the Middle Ages) unpaid(!) apprenticeships lasted for many years. Journeymen would then often go from master to master and workshop to workshop for years to acquire the best techniques of their time and to find a place where there was enough work to be had so that they could settle down and eventually open their own master workshops. With regards to passion... Dude... it took me 12 years to become a physics PhD. The problem I had to solve in my thesis took me over three years. A person who talks about days spent on a detail, to me, is basically just a professional quitter. ;-)
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Way too much for what you are getting (which is nothing). ;-)
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That's because programming is just one tool among dozens. In university they teach you abstraction skills and effective research habits. Programming is something you learn on the side while solving hard problems.
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@jjeverson2269 A self-taught developer doesn't have the time to read and digest the theory books. That's why we give you four, eight or sometimes even a dozen years in university... so you have the time that you will never get on the job, again.
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