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sklogic
on May 4, 2016
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Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SI...
And why exactly you're wasting your skills on something as pitiful as this? There is a lot of work out there for people who can build complex solutions from the first principles.
heurist
on May 4, 2016
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Even piecing together systems out of existing components significantly benefits from knowledge of first principles.
sklogic
on May 5, 2016
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Maybe. But he obviously feels miserable doing this. What's the point of being miserable while there is a lot of much more fun things to do?
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