Was there ever a book that dealt with programming / computer science in a meaningful way?
>>7481826
Is SEL the Ulysses of anime?
>>7481842
*criNGE*
>>7481826
>>7481858
Computer science is a natural filtering system for the meek dullards of society. No wonder the heavily autistic excel at it.
It's not really shocking everyone see's it as just as a career path for shut ins an nothing more. Enjoy nothing but dry technical books lol.
>>7481869
I think that the same applies to those who read fiction. Only the dullards do it.
>>7481873
>no u
max autism would kek again
>>7481869
wow! compelling!
>>7481890
>le memes
Are you sure you don't read technical books since you seem pretty autistic yourself.
>>7481897
Am i wrong? Think about it.
Doughy, passive, nerd culture consuming men see it as an easy route to sitting a computer all day, they read up on fitness to compensate but it's too late, sooner or later they realize they are more interested in the science-lite idea of programming than the dull, dull process of it all.
I say let those naturally talented at it (autistic, aspergers) excel in it and try to ensure those who "like comics and video games so i must like computers too, lol" find a more stimulating career path and maybe they wont end up so dull and fried.
>>7482029
We need more engineers and doctors.
>>7482122
No "we" don't. That's just a real life meme.
>>7482029
oh god i hate those kind of nerd culture faggots who think because they watch star wars and japanese cartoons have some aptitude for computer science and software development...if you had any intelligence you wouldn't be able to watch hours and hours of mind numbing cartoons...sorry, you're just stupid.
>>7482122
Why are you lumping engineers and doctors in with those who study compsci?
look at the wealth of literature surrounding medicine, for one.
>>7482029
>programming
At least know what you're talking about. Although it's easy to make that mistake if you went to a shit school whose CS department just shat out codemonkeys
>>7481826
Snow Crash?
>>7482135
The kids that aren't naturally good at programming, but are still interested in that stuff should do Engineering or Medicine.
We also need more linguists, language teachers, and Philosophers.
>>7481860
Meme book is stale.
>>7482156
ok
>>7482150
Mah nigger.
>not posting a webm version though
>supporting inferior harmful GIF format
It's like you hate freedoms
>>7481869
>feels bad he isn't worth much of anything to society
classic lit. don't you have an old Shakespeare to analyze or something?
>>7482144
>Why are you lumping engineers in with those who study compsci?
Because software engineering?
>>7482172
Software engineering is a euphemism like calling yourself a sanitation engineer when you're a janitor.
>>7482172
Go tell a legit engineer that, lol
>>7482193
>engineers
>legit
laughingphysicist.jpg
>>7482141
This is a far better troll than anything else in this thread. God I hate those self loathing "I'm not a nerd!" IT types.
>>7481842
SEL is the in search of lost time of anime.
>>7482242
Wait, did you just call ABe a faggot?
>>7481826
Cryptonomicon almost
>>7482029
>they read up on fitness to compensate but it's too late, sooner or later they realize they are more interested in the science-lite idea of programming than the dull, dull process of it all.
I don't see how the fitness bit is relevant.
>>7482226
I think they're suggesting that software engineering is engineering "lite".
>muh no two semesters of chemistry
>muh no advanced physics
>>7482259
That is there to craft a caricature of the self loathing nerd. It's all part of his ingenious plan to troll the h*ll out of all the nerds ITT.
>>7482278
And just look how well it worked, you can almost hear the jitter of their amorphous triple chins.
>>7482141
>I hate when people think they have some aptitude for computer science because they have other typical nerdy interests like anime
>you watch anime therefore you watch hours and hours of it
>all anime is mind numbing
>people cannot like anime and also be intelligent
>people who work in the fields of computer science and software development are intelligent
...i'm afraid you're moronic at best...
chill... you're silly...
Is it ok to major in computer science if I'm a genius but severely crippled by the kind of mental illness that has me talking to voices in my head? Because with my handicap it's the hardest field I can make easy work out of.
>>7481826
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. Thank me later.
>>7481826
Well, a lot of sci-fi, obviously. I mean cyberpunk and shit.
>>7482328
Have voices too. Tried majoring in it and faltered. But then again that's a pattern through most of my academic past. Can't say for sure, anon. But know somebody out there feels for you - it's me.
>>7482259
They realize the predicament they are in and try to play the "b..but im well-rounded see" card.
>>7482271
The thing is, you still need to learn calc 2 in order to be even semi good at software engineering.
Sure you could just become a curry nigger and write spaghetti code, but you'll never be well respected in the programming community.
>>7482446
Do non-software engineers only need Calc 2?
>>7482165
>Giving a fuck about society
>Still thinking of duty as a valid concept
>Believing that people care about who you are and what you do
>2015
No offense, but most people don't give a single flying fuck about you. To the majority, you're the tool that delivers apps. To your boss, and probably to your future wife, you're the tool that delivers money. To your parents, you're the tool that delivers them reputation (since you speak duty, I presume that you're middle class, and everyone in the middle class like to see their progeny as excelling). To your friends, you're the tool that delivers them from loneliness.
No one - absolutely no one - care about you in society. Society uses you like a whore, and when there's no juice left you're discarded to rot in some home.
Have a nice life.
>>7482446
>The thing is, you still need to learn calc 2 in order to be even semi good at software engineering.
why? u use series and shit in software? u can just skip over a few derivations in your babby algo course and realistically i don't think it would be a big deal. im math not cs though so maybe i'm making shit up.
>>7482328
>>7482426
Computer science is a good major for motivated students with an interest in the subject.
You have might have schizophrenia m8. It's nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about. You should tell whoever you are closest to that you talk to voices in your head. They can help you so that talking to voices in your head won't stop you from studying computer science or anything else.
>>7481826
Neuromancer basically invented the metaphors that we use to describe the Internet and virtual reality today. It's a fun book to read to.
>People are bashing CompSci in here
Look at an employment chart boys.
Have fun with your liberal arts degree /lit/
>>7482154
Yes, I agree with your second statement. Also, I hate the kids who believe STEM is more important than liberal arts and logic trumps all...
>>7482154
real computer scientists don't write anything but pseudocode
Computer Science is basically Math
and Math is basically analytic philosophy
and philosophy is all you fucks talk about
but no, keep going with your "omg computers are evil, and everyone who studies them are dullards"
computers are a huge human development, and at some point they are going to be the crux of a novel, get over yourselves
>>7483057
no.
>all these people bitching about computer science on the internet
Knuth -- Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Godel Escher Bach
>>7482328
>I'm a genius but severely crippled by the kind of mental illness that has me talking to voices in my head
You're not ill, you're just talking directly to the Gods. Listen to them.
>>7481858
>>7481860
This, and maybe Godel, Escher, Bach?
>>7481869
>>7482029
I'm a natural computer scientist and actually planning on quitting programming to be able to do something political instead, specifically on the front of raging radical feminism.
Also see Richard Stallman.
>>7482156
No, SICP teaches fundamental concepts of CS, it will literally never be deprecated. Like Principia Mathematica.
>>7483246
This desu.
>>7482328
Wow, I didn't know that people who literally talk to voices in their head could still intelligibly talk and take part in discussions and go to a university at all...
>>7481826
Cryptonomicon? I still need to read it. If I'm not mistaken, this work actually has some bearing on real life in the sense that everyone is worried about increasing levels of spying and cybercrime. Cryptology and hacking expertise will only become more important over time and this stuff is never going away. In comparison, Neuromancer will just be a wacky story about cyborg chicks and cheeky AI.
>SEL
The reason SEL is top tier is because of philosophy. Rest is made up of random references to random computer shit. If you ever come on here and bring up SEL as your ace in the hole, to say "see! /g/ can be patrician too," then the universe will collapse from sheer irony.
>>7485115
SEL?
>>7484933
>Wow, I didn't know that people who literally talk to voices in their head could still intelligibly talk and take part in discussions and go to a university at all...
There's a theory that everyone in the ancient era was some type of schizoid.
>>7484933
>Like Principia Mathematica.
>This, and maybe Godel, Escher, Bach?
Did you even read the latter? Principia Mathematica was deprecated by Gödel.
>>7487342
I think he's referring to Newton's and not to Russell's.
>>7487376
Newton's was deprecated by Einstein.
>>7487382
You're not correct. Thinking that will get you nowhere.
It's still young, so nothing yet, but it will be.
>>7487337
Serial Experiments Lain.
There are lots of thrillers that use IT/CompSci in an informed way beyond Star Trek technobabble.
I particularly liked Daemon and Freedom Inc. Cyberdelic wet dreams about how hackers could use the Internet to create a worldwide utopia and a neat edgelord time capsule of the 2000s.
I'm writing it as we speak. It's about a teenage girl who accidently solves the "P vs. NP" problem. Lisbeth salander minus the rape. A little punky but not edgy. She smokes weed and listens to Einstürzende Neubauten
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
O'Reilly's series The Virginomicon. Each has a cool drawing of a different animal on it!
>>7487873
>he uses wikipedia as a source for his fanfiction
>>7487925
Some people do t know what it is, dicknose.
>tfw you tell them you're not writing fanfic and they go "Hurr durr fanfic" when the two are only connected by a vagina and computers.
>>7481842
Evangelion is the Ulysses of Anime.
Lain is the Finnegans Wake.
