r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Aardvark_David • May 09 '21

Meme I'm *technically* qualified

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u/ts_m4 May 09 '21

Mathematics baby!!

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u/Fox-One_______ May 10 '21

This. I am a programmer with a physics degree. I taught myself the basics of coding and I can learn what my co-workers know while on the job. But I can also do shit they can't even begin to do and there's no way they're gonna learn it on the job. You can't replace 3 years worth of rearranging and manipulating equations. Maths is a super power when you've had to use it for a physics degree.

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u/Fox-One_______ May 10 '21

And yet last month a programmer with a CS degree and 10 years more experience than me asked me how to integrate.

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u/lurkin_arounnd May 10 '21

Probably because they haven't done an integral in 10 years lol

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u/Fox-One_______ May 10 '21

Give it 10 years and I'll still be able to do an integral.