> But what is really unacceptable to me is how you dismiss their viewpoint because they are a 2nd-year CS student!
> Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem
This is not really about authority. An outsider can have good ideas. A person who has no experience and no knowledge of the subject will usually spout nonsense as seen on this thread.
If someone was talking about how child birth doesn't need any sort of pain medication because the experience isn't that painful, wouldn't you want to know if they had actually given birth at least once?
Concretely, reading what a person who has never worked a full time job (much less had to juggle having a family and a full time job), has to say about work-life balance is pointless.
Reading their thoughts on how not working overtime precludes raises and promotions is a waste of time.
Watching as they finish their rant by appealing to a sense of duty that every software engineer must have because "if Google or AWS goes down, it breaks everything" when the people responsible for these systems are a tiny minority of all software engineers...
Come on. If OP was not a 2nd year CS student, I would have been surprised.
> Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem
This is not really about authority. An outsider can have good ideas. A person who has no experience and no knowledge of the subject will usually spout nonsense as seen on this thread.
If someone was talking about how child birth doesn't need any sort of pain medication because the experience isn't that painful, wouldn't you want to know if they had actually given birth at least once?
Concretely, reading what a person who has never worked a full time job (much less had to juggle having a family and a full time job), has to say about work-life balance is pointless.
Reading their thoughts on how not working overtime precludes raises and promotions is a waste of time.
Watching as they finish their rant by appealing to a sense of duty that every software engineer must have because "if Google or AWS goes down, it breaks everything" when the people responsible for these systems are a tiny minority of all software engineers...
Come on. If OP was not a 2nd year CS student, I would have been surprised.