I earned a CS degree, and I love programming, but I wait tables. Gives me more time with my kids; and frankly, at the time I left school, most CS jobs involved doing things I found unethical, like SEO capture and HVT.
Blogging
Welcome to /c/blogging!
This is a community for posting interesting, insightful, or even personal blog posts. You can advertise your own blog, or share other blog posts you find interesting.
Since this is the programming instance, expect many posts to be related to computer science. General blogs are still welcome as well!
Rules:
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Don't be rude. Duh.
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Don't spam your own blog. Try to limit self-promotion to only once or twice per week.
Looking to start your own blog? Check out Bearblog, Write.as, WordPress (which you can host yourself as well).
If you're tech-savvy, check out Hugo!
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Interesting blog post. Given how society is overselling STEM these days, it’s worth a read.
One of the problems I see is that STEM is oversold as a career path and undersold as a, what, life skill? We need everyone to be literate, numerate, and have a decent grasp of the role of scientific methods in both understanding the world as it is and in how to best teach and learn things.
Yeah full agreement. Not everyone needs to be an engineer but everyone should have basic mechanical competence. Not everyone should be a scientist but everyone should understand why science works and that basically every bit of science they learned in school is simplified to the point of untruth, but generally applies. Not everyone needs to be a mathematician but math is true and useful and it shouldn’t scare you.
Agreed. A related problem is when those skill are oversold at the expense of humanities and arts. Everyone also needs at least a basic grasp of history, arts, and good communication skills.
100% in agreement.
I've learned so much about the problems we have today by reading a bit of history. It's criminal how little I was taught in school. And it's also criminal to see how badly the arts have been cut in the last few decades.