[banachtarski]

"If you hire too many computer scientists, your code base could be full of fascinating technical tricks, but creaky and hard to work with. Too many craftsmen, and you'll get stuck on simple problems. It's a balance."

Your whole post is full over hand waving and overgeneralization. You've never met a CS major who wrote clean code without resorting to fascinating technical tricks? You haven't met a non-CS major who did his or her due diligence to learn the mathematical fundamentals?

Please cut the hyperbole.

[TheZenPsycho]

What do you expect? We're talking about someone sharing their personal experience, not their 5 year double blind statistically rigorous study. Take it for what it is. I expect HN to be full of people who can take information in, with a critical eye, without wasting time quibbling over quality. We know the quality of the information source (he states it at the head of the comment!), we don't have to rehash the basics, science, and sources of evidence for every comment do we?

[woah]

Just my opinion, and I don't have much experience. I'm sorry if it offended you for any reason.