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1. kazina+ev[view] [source] 2018-11-13 04:47:52
>>janvdb+(OP)
> My aunt and cousin thought of computer technology as a series of increasingly elaborate sand castles supplanting one another after each high tide clears the beach.

They are basically right though.

The counterexample of some Unix utilities means nothing. You're not getting a CS degree in order to develop the next version of cat, are you?

We have some things with a long history and they are easy to identify. It is just hindsight being 20/20.

For every one of those things, there are countless that can't be seen or felt. They aren't here; they got washed away.

Who uses the Michigan Terminal System?

Or a web framework from ten years ago?

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2. Beldin+WC[view] [source] 2018-11-13 06:49:19
>>kazina+ev
> They are basically right though.

They are only right in the same way that a physics major is obsoleted by advances in physics: lhc, discovery of dark matter & energy, increasing expansion of the universe, etc.

A CS major isn't about learning the latest Angular framework derivative. A CS major is about learning fundamental aspects of computer science.

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