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dagw on Aug 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to t...

this was nothing but subsidised Microsoft training.

"Subsidized Microsoft training" is what most people actually want and need to get the sort of job they aspire to. People with this "Subsidized Microsoft training" are also what many companies are looking to hire. So why is it such a bad thing to offer people this option?

mellett68 on Aug 23, 2016 | [–]

It's not a problem, unless you go to higher education looking for CS and end up with that instead.

ENTP on Aug 30, 2016 | [–]

Because we need people to program computers not use word.

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