I'm unpersuaded. To begin with, _is_ it such a waste of time to study programming problems, as, you know, a programmer?

Also, more specifically on this piece: can anyone explain how Theranos fits in here? I don't get the connection. One the one hand we have a massive fraud, and on the other... people studying techniques that are rarely used by normal software engineers? But that nevertheless are, still, programming techniques.

And please no more "considered harmful" titles! It's painful to read at this point.