He’s not wrong.

Not really a joke

More a summary of todays life....

Love calculus iiii

Somehow the importance of actual mathematics and algorithmic knowledge always gets severely overestimated when non-devs talk about coding. And lets face it: Most won't become devs anyways - they become code monkeys, which basically are production workers boilerplating slightly altered templates together and never needing to actually translate a formula into code themselves. They can get by with elementary arithmetics and a basic understanding of boolean algebra (maybe also De Morgan's law to make conditions more readable, but you can get by without).

The socioeconomic stuff is true though (except don't expect to have anything left to save).

@Oktokolo Couldn’t agree more.

@jackpearce Sorry for the bad tag. Can’t modify it anymore.

@Hazarth I am dying at your comment. Thanks for making my day.

Finally the motivation I need

@Oktokolo overestimated mathematics does not have to be by non-devs only. our CompSci university had a shitload of math in the study program too

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@SuspiciousBug It's 4chan just roll with it

Yo man don’t need all that math shit I was smokin crack and after studying nigger.js I got job at google an math is extremely important if not for math I never would’ve learned niggerscript math is important need to learn calc iv but I hated that class it had nothing to do with niggascript math sucks DONT need it. 4chan big money google dur hur

@qwwerty Well, computer science is sortof a field of mathematics. Back in my days, people studied it when they wanted to do academic research on algorithms and computability.

Most developers don't need a degree in computer science. But apart from maybe getting a stroke from the heavy math stuff, it obviously never hurts to have all that fomal knowledge - so if you are really into the math side things, go for it.

@Oktokolo I really wasn't into the math side of things, so they fired me for failing one of the advanced calculus classes even before I got to data structures and algorithms, which would have been thousands times more helpful. But uni decided calculus has priority over anything pratical.

@yehaaw All good that was just my joke-respond to this ^^'

@qwwerty Chances are, they would have tried to teach you data structures the formal mathy way - so you might have saved yourself a lot of brain pain by failing early.

Yes, there's some truth to this. Whenever someone says you should study X because, sure you might never need it, but you should do it anyways as it's nice to know or whatever.

It's so easy to say that shit about 1 particular thing. Without considering it's said about a dozen other things too.