The amount of effort that people go to cope with the fact they lack education.
There are brilliant self-taughts and educated morons, that's obvious. Personally, I am mechanical engineer that got interested in simulations, then in writing simulation code, then in gritty details of implementing numerical methods on a real computers, and ended up writing a compiler and simulation runtime. But I am not trying to convince myself that having CS degree in addition to my ME degree would not help me in any way. Not only because CS in the end is not about coding.
This is a similar situation to car mechanics taking pride in often outperforming mechanical engineers in fixing oil leakages or punctured tires. That's probably true, but we don't teach mechanical engineers so they can fix our cars (though my first job was supervising some huge water chillers and compressors in a manufacturing plant, where I often did a dirty work because our technicians didn't know how, but it is a matter of personal traits and interests. I like to get dirty).
Not everyone can afford the education. This isn't about cope, it is about hunger, drive, and passion.
The article echoes what I've seen working in big corp with grads who were stellar at varsity and hopeless for any actual problem solving that wasn't first explained to them.
The tragic reality is that most companies filter out candidates who didn't go to a handful of universities, or worse anyone who doesn't have a CS degree.
There are brilliant self-taughts and educated morons, that's obvious. Personally, I am mechanical engineer that got interested in simulations, then in writing simulation code, then in gritty details of implementing numerical methods on a real computers, and ended up writing a compiler and simulation runtime. But I am not trying to convince myself that having CS degree in addition to my ME degree would not help me in any way. Not only because CS in the end is not about coding.
This is a similar situation to car mechanics taking pride in often outperforming mechanical engineers in fixing oil leakages or punctured tires. That's probably true, but we don't teach mechanical engineers so they can fix our cars (though my first job was supervising some huge water chillers and compressors in a manufacturing plant, where I often did a dirty work because our technicians didn't know how, but it is a matter of personal traits and interests. I like to get dirty).