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As a kid I thought Pythagoras was silly for making a math cult. Now that I'm older I get it.
This was made by someone who doesn't understand any of it.
Computer programming books ... Lol we don't print them any more, they'd be obsolete before hitting the shelves.
Do be fair, that's less because the fundamentals behind programming are changing and more because the specific implementations are changed all the damn time.
Mathematics ^teacher^: That textbook was written thousands of years ago, and it is still as useful and relevant as ever, but I want you to buy this one I co-authored instead for the mere sum of $120, otherwise you won't pass.
Conflict of interest detected
This really happened?
I took an environmental science class in college, and the professor was a former president of Shell. As part of the curriculum, we had to read his book, Why we Hate the Oil Companies. Predictably, it's a corporate non-apologia, which—hilariously—completely avoids engaging with why we actually hate the oil companies.
environmental science class … the professor was a former president of Shell
Do they also invite Nazis to teach the elective in human rights?
Did people stand up to call the bullshit? I guess in this kind of situation you feel threatened that if you talk, you get penalized heavily
I admit I exaggerated a bit. It hasn't happened to me, but I've had some teachers that strongly suggested buying their textbooks and frowned if you didn't.
Fucking disgusting behavior
Not the original commenter, but I briefly had one professor in college that did that (their book was $50, though). It was an elective course for me, fortunately. I was able to switch for a different class that fit the same requirement without being forced to buy a book the professor wrote.
Science is validated by the new information replacing the old. Al-Khwarizmi worked out numbers so we don’t have to,
Programming: that book was printed a month ago, and it's already obsolete.
Newspapers printed yesterday are already in the bin.
Tiktok posts last seconds before being discarded.
Wrong for physics. Models to describe reality don't magically become wrong just because a model with better predictive power is discovered. Most old models are special cases of newer ones.
Yeah, Newton wasn't just a science bitch who is wrong, sometimes. His equations are the special case of General Relativity when acceleration is very low. Which is the world we live in.
Reality: The universe was spontaneously created last thursday and there is no way for you to disprove it.
Nah mate, it was already in existence by last Tuesday afternoon and there is no way for you to disprove it.
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Oh that book is outdated. That's the second edition, you need the third addition to complete the one math problem I am basing your entire grade on for the course.
"Why yes I do happen to also be the author of the textbook for this course, why do you ask?"
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