>>4Sepples programmers at least have some low-level knowledge (they need to due to the clunkiness of the language) and I'd rather talk about stack, memory and registers than spend time with enterprisey bullshit, frameworks, XML, design patterns and all that shit
Talking about design patterns and enterprise XML is much more interesting.
There's nothing admirable about being an assembly expert who knows all about "low level" software stuff like registers. Nigger tier bullshit. There is no complexity or imagination to it. It's not challenging. You don't need a math background to do it. While there are lots of details, every concept is completely linear. It's boring implementation details that only EEs should deal with. Of all the things to be interested in, in the current year, you choose the hottest research topic of 1962. It's the white trash fedora-wearing subsection of the programming world. This is another reason I hate Cudder.