Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is
Posted Jan 15, 2020, 9:44 AM UTC
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The number of times I have to start an email with "I'm no expert in ... but ..."
Is about the same as the number of times my dyslexia almost causes me to sign off emails with "King Retards"
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i wonder if skipping words because thinking too fast of typing too slow, most likely both, is a common thing or am i seriously broken ?
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I do the same thing... so I don’t think you are broken. (I reread this 4 times to make sure it had all the words)
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The only time I don't skip words or steps is when I code because coding is the only thing that slows me down and forces me to think linearly.
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lmao i dont get the king retards thing
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When typing an email quickly I often typo kind regards and unlike most typos outlook doesn't put a line under it as they are perfectly fine words... As such it is only when I reread my email that I find such things... And most of the time it is before I click send... Most of the time...
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HAHAHA
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Dunning-Kruger effect...
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I remember the day I learned enough to realize I don't know anything.
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Maybe if his digree was a PhD then I would call him an expert in that tiny sub field about which his paper was. (at least how PhDs are granted in my country I don't know the system of other countries)
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...in that tiny sub field at the period of time when the research was conducted and the paper written...
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as one very famous phrase states: ' the more we learn, the less we know...'
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That's the great thing about CS! It's not a static discipline, so no one is ever really an expert in the entire field
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context would be fun.
I suspect the first comment is sarcasm, and the response too, which means they really are on the way to being a computer expert
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Actually, it was a post about how long the next generation of video game consoles would last. I'm pretty sure it was to be taken literally.
Computer processing simply isn't advancing as fast as it used to. Expect this gen to last at least 8 years.
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then I still think the first looks like sarcasm, but maybe not the reply.
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Oh yeah, the first reply is definitely sarcasm.
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I mean, he's not wrong about advancement slowing down. Moore's Law just isn't holding up these days. If this last gen is any indication, the next gen should last at least 7 years. PS4 and XBOX launched in 2013.
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I graduated with a CS degree along with my classmates, and let me tell ya, I would NOT classify myself or them as "experts".
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it's funny, because there really is no way of guaranteeing a person is an expert in a subject.
does the degree mean they are an expert? no, it could have been a lackluster program they completed that barely taught the basics; plus there is the fact they aren't quoting any experience.
does 40+ years of work make them an expert? maybe, but they could have spent this entire career working in jobs that made little to no use of the knowledge in the subject, despite being labeled as a job using said knowledge.
does a dissertation/novel about the subject written by the person make them an expert? maybe, if it wasn't plagiarism and the paper isn't nonsense disguised as truth. then you have to question if you are enough of an expert to determine if what is said in the paper is true, mostly true, mostly conjecture, or just outright false claims.
so what does show that a person is an expert in a subject?
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I loved it when our CS dept made everyone install and use BSD. "What fresh Hell is this?"
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Well, when it comes to IT everyone is expert in everything they know anything about, we just have to determine collection of people with much smaller experience/knowledge in that area for guy to be an expert.
So maybe he is an expert to the people he was talking about. Without context I can't tell. People on the internet often acts like IT experts because they do base things with one OS, I guess someone with IT degree can be an expert to them.
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It's sad that we don't see his username, because I have never seen an expert before, maybe he could help us all
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And yet you're still using the white mode and not the dark mode
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I'm sure you're great at printing "hello world"
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I was able to stumble through classes designed by people who studied old tech and couldn't get a job in the industry, so I am clearly an expert.
Millennials, walking around like they rent the place.
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Anyone who got a CS degree knows enough to not call themselves an "expert". The dude who posted that shit probabñy isnt styuding cs.
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No way. He’s read at least 3, maybe 4 books with computers in them.
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Biggest yikes ever. Computer Science degree means almost nothing honestly.
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0 experience... Sure he know everything
Twenty-eight years in and I am not an expert.
If you are on a conference with hundrets of other "experts" then no, you are most likely not an expert yourself.
But if you visit a kindergarten and present your job, yes you are an expert. And everyone on social media behaves like a kid.
^^^ This.
Pretty much this. Would be helpful to know which subreddit this was snipped from.
Have you tried almost finishing a CS degree?
Thats actually exactly what I did. I almost finished my degree. Ran out of money, and got lucky because an old buddy from my Geek Squad days set me up with a dev job.
I was a year out from graduation, so I don't know if something would have clicked in that time, but I have already learned more on the job than I did in college (one year in now).
Yeah learn different stuff in school vs business. Business is very much applied knowledge and specific technologies and design philosophies, whereas school (tries to) teach you more about how to think about a problem, and what the tools you have are.
Also how to integrate the square root of mx+b because fuck you.
I have 2 years in the area working and I have now learn much more in 2 years of experience than in 3 years of studying...
The only people who think they are the experts are the inventor and the beginner, so you're doing pretty well lol.
That's normal. This skill/trade/whatever is slow at the start and then accelerates (until you hit your skill limit). Each new thing takes less and less time to learn as you understand more and more concepts. It's the same as Maths.
We're just also an ever growing and expanding field that no one could ever truly keep up with. Even subject matter experts won't know everything, just a lot more than most of us.
Me too. The longer I do this, the more I am certain that I have no idea what I'm doing.
Ofc you are. Your experience is probably more than enough to tackle most projects without any problems. People always sell themselves short. I know it's supposed to be a joke, but I know enough people that think their experience is worth nothing.
stfu noob
Got it!
I have twenty-nine years experience, so my college education became useless way before yours.
Big Dunning-Kruger guy