Regardless of this digression, that's the gist of what you said, so beat it.

You do realize, that not everything in quotation marks has to be a quote, regardless of your attempted "assault on my credibility?" (See what I did there?)

I'm not pissed, just providing a counter-weight to your purely anecdotal "wisdom" you're "providing" here. (Oh, he did it again.)

I'm totally chill, dude, so chill in fact that you may call me Mr. Mellow, if "chill" is too nu-school for you.
I'll always have an edge over most other self-taught people (except for those, who make a point of studying actual theory), not only due to the fact that I've been constantly acquiring real-world experience over the past 15+ years, sophisticated, (some - very) well-paying and quite demanding projects in terms of knowledge and understanding requirements, but also, because the theoretical foundation (which doesn't change a lot, if you know) will always (on average) allow me to understand concepts better than someone, who only focused on practical applications.

You must have had a shitty experience in higher education, because what I've learned in university and now teach to others helps me every time I work on anything and is a formidable foundation on which to further my studies and expand knowledge.
As you might have guessed, I went (much) further than just getting a bachelor.

Yeah, in contrast, there's a point in giving advice such as "a CS degree is not worth the effort." A grandmaster of wisdom you are, gramps.
Should I get off your lawn now, or would you like me to dig you a deeper hole?

I think this is a valid concern, however, if you think about it, when we're distracted and focus on something else (e.g. visual or auditory stimulation), it doesn't have to be as fast as your nervous system, just close enough to it.
That's the way pocket thieves work.

Yes, for me "worth it" means the functionality and abilities, not how much it costs. My time and nerves are worth much more than gold.

The way you put it, makes this tragedy almost seem funny, but we don't know how large their forces, and what their tactics and core stratagems were. So this is just a possibility.

So you're one of the people that think with age always comes wisdom, eh?

The post was not about 'endowment' measurements, and my comment about buying a plane was to make it clear that it is quite important to know about the fundamental theory. It just makes it possible to better use your talents.
We're in the same age range, and I've (unfortunately) not met many people in my line of work that had a really broad and deep understanding of the concepts that make up the work that feeds them, whether autodidacts or graduates. From the ones I did, all had a university degree in CS (or a related area).
I do my best to teach the people around me and learn whenever I can, mostly it's both at the same time, unless I'm in crunch-mode, and just need to get something done.

This is where you're crossing the line as there's no way you can safely assume that.

Thanks for the advice. I don't believe I have be politically correct in a forum of (supposedly) my peers and just say straight out what I (and many others) believe is right. If you want to talk about politics, and "communication skills" I suggest you go to your local university and enroll in a couple of related courses. It's much more satisfying talking about a topic with people in a context, where they're set to do so.
My "arrogance" as you call it, is just years and years of experience. As others have pointed out, it is not necessary to have a degree to be able to perform a function, but for someone who enjoys learning, there's probably no better place than there and the more you know and understand, the better you are. Yes, even you.

Oh... In this case, I stand corrected. I wonder if that "rumbler" is worth it, though.

The link you provided only has an input device (motion capturing) vs. an output device (haptic feedback). An interesting product, but not directly related to the tech discussed here.
Their website also doesn't have any haptic feedback devices, so if you could please elaborate on your "this company has a tactile feedback" statement, and show the feedback part, I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks for the attempt at mentoring. You obviously are much more qualified than me to distinguish what makes a programmer a programmer, a software engineer a software engineer, and a computer scientist a computer scientist. Just stick to your opinion and go wreak some more havoc, so I can clean up after people like you and get myself another house and maybe this time a plane.

So is unmaintainable spaghetti-code. Usually.

Yeah, there's like absolutely no point at all in learning about distributed systems, concurrency, databases, patterns, functional programming, network and OS fundamentals, graph (i.e. network) theory, agents, model based and/or driven approaches, fault tolerance, streaming systems, ...
For a programmer, that's totally unnecessary. For a software engineer, though it's a different story.

Absolutely right. Thank you!

Look. I presented my position, in a most clear and concise fashion. You on the other hand are just using polemics to attack anything Russian, or so it seems.
Much in line with what I hear from my friends in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. There's no threat to your states, but if you continue to repress your ~30% Russian-speaking minority, you'll obviously have problems the reasons for which can be identified in your attitude.
You seem to just hear what you want to hear. This is called "selective perception." I, on the other hand, do my best on getting as objective a picture as possible, which is difficult if not impossible. And until I see irrefutable evidence, I will not believe what anyone is saying, because I know how media is used to manipulate the population. Mhkey? Good.