This is true for anything engineering-related outside of computers. There is something about programmers being overconfident about their own knowledge of technical fields outside their own which is particularly painful.
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I once failed a job interview when I started talking about radios (licensed amateur, did some RF engineering at university) with a programmer who didn't believe me.
That's what it is, a generalization, a first order approximation. I'm not saying everyone who has written a line of code is exactly like this or that, that's ridiculous and doesn't need to be pointed out explicitly.
This is true for anything engineering-related outside of computers. There is something about programmers being overconfident about their own knowledge of technical fields outside their own which is particularly painful.
Skip the comments if the article has anything to do with something that flies.
I once failed a job interview when I started talking about radios (licensed amateur, did some RF engineering at university) with a programmer who didn't believe me.