Faking A Tech Background

[Bret Cahill]

Occasionally you hear about someone without any formal training but
spent some time in a hospital, learned a lot and managed to get hired
as a doctor with no one suspecting a thing for years. In one case the
guy went back to school and becomes completely legitimate.

Occasionally you'll hear about a pro se litigant who wins almost all
his cases.

Newsgroups, however, is no substitute for a hospital or courtroom and
some tech fields aren't like medicine or law where some laymen can
often know a lot.

If you haven't had the math, you will, in short time, reveal it.

If you haven't done anything except play too clever by half word
games, then it'll quickly become obvious to those who _have_ done
something.


Bret Cahill

 

Occasionally you hear about someone without any formal training but
spent some time in a hospital, learned a lot and managed to get hired
as a doctor with no one suspecting a thing for years. �In one case the
guy went back to school and becomes completely legitimate.

Occasionally you'll hear about a pro se litigant who wins almost all
his cases.

Newsgroups, however, is no substitute for a hospital or courtroom and
some tech fields aren't like medicine or law where some laymen can
often know a lot.

If you haven't had the math, you will, in short time, reveal it.

If you haven't done anything except play too clever by half word
games, then it'll quickly become obvious to those who _have_ done
something.

I wonder what that says about "doctors" and "lawyers"?

Formal or informal medical knowledge tends to be encyclopedic.

The knowledge in law is encyclopedic too but almost all of it is
informal, psychology, human nature, political science, etc.

The formal part is almost trivial. A full service law library takes
up 3,000 ft^2 with about 90% of the material repeated dozens of times
in other books.

Drop the few basic legal concepts and all that's left is a few minor
differences in numbers, i. e.,tax rates, etc.


Bret Cahill


"Psychology, the queen of sciences."

-- Nietzsche

 

"Psychology, the queen of sciences."

-- Nietzsche

"Bret Cahill, the queen of USENET Idiots."

"You are vexed therefore I am right about you."

-- Nietzsche

Care to try again?


Bret Cahill

 

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