<story><title>Lambda School wants to teach nursing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/lambda-an-online-school-wants-to-teach-nursing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>(I don&amp;#x27;t know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.)&lt;p&gt;Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default.&lt;p&gt;Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&amp;amp;implementation quality, and ethics.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the majority of software right now.  You don&amp;#x27;t want your ER nurse to be smug about how smart they are, while they do shoddy work with fad tools and halfwitted cargo cult processes.  You don&amp;#x27;t want your doctor or lawyer selling you out to &amp;#x27;analytics&amp;#x27;, for starters, like almost every dotcom startup does.&lt;p&gt;As startups try to bring the greatness of Webrogramming to other areas, are they going to suddenly say, &amp;quot;Oh, but &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; is actually an important area, unlike the information infrastructure of humanity, so &lt;i&gt;this one&lt;/i&gt; we&amp;#x27;ll do with more responsibility than obviously we have been.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lambda School wants to teach nursing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/lambda-an-online-school-wants-to-teach-nursing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MispelledToyota</author><text>During my time at Lambda School, seeing people&amp;#x27;s quick arguments against it have drastically lowered my priors on how correct &amp;quot;hot takes&amp;quot; are likely to be in general. Sort of like reading a newspaper article about your area of expertise for the first time, and realizing how many inaccuracies all newspaper articles must have.&lt;p&gt;There are places for skepticism but the actual critiques made are shockingly wide of the mark in my opinion as someone who found the value proposition compelling.</text></comment>