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by bitwize 923 days ago
Real software engineering is a drudgery of stitching together other people's libraries and APIs, responding to the product team's "can't we just...?" queries, and alphabetizing your HTML properties. College doesn't prepare you for that. Shiny happy Schemeland doesn't prepare you for that. It's like the old joke about Bill Gates and the beta version of hell.
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> College doesn't prepare you for that. Shiny happy Schemeland doesn't prepare you for that.

I see no problem with that. That's not what university should be about. They're not supposed to be software dev bootcamps for companies.