Knowing about things is cheaper than knowing things (opens in new tab)

Short one this week because I'm way behind on book and conference prep. Last week a LinkedIn Influencer wrote about how math has nothing to do with programming, so I spite-wrote a rejoinder about how math is necessary to program (just try to write software without knowing arithmetic!) and man I forgot how much spite can fuel writing. Maybe I should go back to Twitter (absolutely not). But it got me thinking about the difference between "all programmers can benefit from learning math" and "all...