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We work in a technical field. We call ourselves engineers. The academic version is computer SCIENCE. Unsupportable opinions and opinions presented as facts are inexcusable.

"more ... error prone" Can you prove that? If not, it's just a baseless opinion.

What is his definition of better? It sounds like he thinks it's entirely objective, so he should be able to express it clearly and logically. Does he think that it's technically mo…

Can you show a proof for that claim? I believe it to be nonsense.

"If you think of a type as a set of possible values" You can't do that! You fall foul of Russell's paradox - sets as types simply don't work!

That looks absolutely revolting. It looks like when you bite it it would just shatter everywhere and all that grim looking meat and cheese would slop down onto your hand.

Wow - that is so totally different to how we look at class in the UK. I think what I'm thinking of the class divide, you might call the old-money, new-money divide.

So if it's just about money, what would you call a fifth generation Baronet who was educated at Eton and Oxford, served as an officer in a prestigious Army regiment, listens to Rad…

The cheeky mods have changed the title, so your comment no longer makes any sense.

I'm from the UK, and I think here class has nothing to do with money. It has something to do with education, but more to do with background, especially family background, culture, …

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I wouldn't describe most people who work at Facebook and Google as being upper class. They may earn above average when you look at all workers, but I think upper class is old money…

I retract that then, but I honestly think that anti-intellectualism is a serious and disturbing problem in the tech community. It's like these people want to take us to a dark age …

Here's what I think people are missing: if you don't go to college then you don't know what you don't know. These people with no education think they know it all anyway, but that's…

Yeah, I'll just call myself a surgeon and pick it up as I go along. No problem! Who needs to spend time learning from best academic minds in CS? I can just tweet to some jackass Ja…