@btp @jcrabapple
Isn't it a little bit more like having good surgeons that don't know how to talk to people?
They excel in a very limited domain of endeavor, and as soon as they're outside of their tiny little field, they're completely helpless, because they're not hackers, or self-taught, or self-motivated, but they just went to get a degree to do a job, and that's it.
I'm actually not substantially disagreeing with you because this is actually the factor that prevented me from ever going into programming as a field. I met programmers and talked to programmers and saw how completely helpless they were in just using a computer day-to-day and it completely broke my brain.
The world needs more #hackers.
I don't trust anyone who can fire up VSCode or Teams without feeling a bit of revulsion.
I don't trust anyone who can log in with their Microsoft credentials to use their own damned computer that they paid for and not feel like grabbing some M$ exec by the giblets.
I don't trust anyone who can slap together tens of megabytes of horrid JS frameworks and call it a job well done.
When I say the world needs more hackers, what I'm really saying is the world needs more John the Baptists. People to stand up to feckless C-execs say that the axe is laid to the roots.
In short, we need a motherfucking revolution.