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		rufus_foreman 41 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joint Book Review: Class, by Paul Fussell "Upper-middle class teenagers go to college, and typically major in things with no obvious commercial application like English, art history, or computer science."

jvanderbot 41 days ago [–]

Yeah does CS really have no commercial application? This whole thing feels like satire to me.

terminalshort 41 days ago | [–]

Book was written in 1983 when the vast majority of people had never even seen a computer, so it at least makes sense why people would think that.

jvanderbot 41 days ago | | [–]

That makes some sense then

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