• macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    That's not "computer science", you're talking about programming or software engineering, which are workers building what computer scientists have figured out. There are very few computer scientists. They are basically specialized mathematicians. Think Dijkstra. Google has most of them chained up in a basement somewhere writing sharding algorithms or something. It's confusing because many programmers get CS undergrad degrees, but they are starting to make "software engineering" degrees.

    It's true that CS doesn't use the scientific method, but neither do library science, "scientific socialism", etc. Popper isn't the be-all end-all.

    • facow [he/him, any]
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      7 months ago

      Fair enough I had been considering deleting/rewriting my comment for a similar reason. Point still stands if you replace CS for SWE