This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 09/01/2018 02:15 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> 
> The root cause of bad software is that many programmers don't even have 
> an education in CS or software engineering, or didn't do a good job 
> while getting it!
> 

Meh, no. The root cause trifecta is:

A. People not caring enough about their own craft to actually TRY to 
learn how to do it right.

B. HR people who know nothing about the domain they're hiring for.

C. Overall societal reliance on schooling systems that:

     - Know little about teaching and learning,

     - Even less about software development,

     - And can't even decide whether their priorities should be "pure 
theory *without* sufficient practical" or "catering to the 
above-mentioned HR folk's swing-and-miss, armchair-expert attempts at 
defining criteria for identifying good programmers" (Hint: The answer is 
"neither").