[zacinbusiness]

I was an English major in undergrad and grad school and I see these arguments all the time. I learned a great deal in my university career, and much of what I learned in the humanities took real intellectual curiosity, hard work, and deep thinking. You're not going to put together a real, publishable work by copy and pasting work from Stackoverflow, not in a master level English course. And let's be honest, the majority of CS students are lazy and incompetent, just like the majority of all students in all majors. Sure, you get some truly brilliant students that come along, but most of them never really produce anything of value. And most engineers, talented as they may be at slinging code and doing the lambda calculus, are pitiful communicators and can barely write a coherent sentence.

[zacinbusiness]

Let's see some logical refutations before we start with the emotional down votes, you purely logical genius gods of knowledge.

[Iftheshoefits]

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that, were I you.

My education is in science. My particular science is one in which I had to learn a lot of mathematics--everything from real analysis to quite advanced analytical geometry and a wide variety of other things. I forgot more math by the time I took my qualifying exams than most CS people I've known ever learned. So for my part it's just hilarious to see the unbridled arrogance showing its head here. CS majors like to think of themselves as being paragons of logical and intellectual rigor. I think the downvotes we've accumulated here shows that some, at least, ought not.

That's not to excuse or defend the author of the article. I happen to agree with the argument he claims the Googler makes (even though the Googler doesn't apparently actually make that argument) in a very broad sense, based solely on my personal experiences. It's a sense broad enough that it ought not be applied to individuals.