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Hey Joey! My Covid-era Principal internship feels like a fever dream now lol but I appreciated the support back then. Hope you're doing well too!

Well my employer chooses to use GitHub so I don’t have a choice there. And it’s vendor lock-in VSCode but that’s already my primary editor so it means there’s no need to learn another tool just for code review.

I use the GitHub Pull Request extension in VSCode to do the same thing (reviewing code locally in my editor). It works pretty well, and you can add/review comments directly in the editor.

Sure, but with that argument I think you could say most people in software engineering are self taught. If you want to get a job as a SWE you probably need to learn a lot outside of the classes for a typical CS degree.

But I don’t think that’s as much of a black mark on formal higher education as the article suggests. Since the reality is, the vast majority of people aren’t organized, driven, and bright enough to learn all of the fundamentals taught in a CS degree on their own. That’s why I don’t think it’s smart advice to recommend spurning a CS degree in favor of being wholly self-taught.

To your last point, what can access at a university that you can’t get elsewhere? People. Namely, a community of like-minded peers, and personal relationships to experts in the field. Those relationships and mentorship opportunities are far more valuable than the content of the syllabus. For that, I agree it’s all available online.

Linus Torvalds given as an example of self-taught engineers yet he has a masters degree in CS.

Higher education isn’t just about what you learn, it’s about learning how to study and learn.

It should already be possible to run CAMLBOY on WASM because of the new WASM backend of js_of_ocaml (wasm_of_ocaml).

Masters of fine arts in literature or creative writing.

I disagree. In Rust, traits are used all over for dynamic dispatch, the defining feature of object-oriented programming. Moreover, all three languages support structural pattern matching (borrowed from functional programming) as a core control-structure.

Certainly all three languages can be used in a simple, imperative style. But that's not the only paradigm that can be used unlike in C or early versions of Python. Many programs in these languages look significantly different than just statements and procedures.

Are there a lot of people who live alone in a small apartment that are willing and able to buy a $3500 headset?

I feel like this entire thread has a blind spot to the fact that this device is very much a luxury item. A 55-inch TV is ~$300. A high-end laptop is ~$1000. High-end noise-cancelling headphones are ~$250. You could buy all of those and still not reach half of the cost of this device.

The only people I can see buying the device are rich people looking for another toy, not as a serious competitor to other entertainment tech.