Ignore the humanities at your own peril

I can't begin to tell you how often I was met with disdain when I told my colleagues that I studied history. "That's not even a real science!"computer science also isn't a science, bite me.Correct, but that doesn't hurt my feelings. Computer science is also not a science, there are very few true "sciences" out there. Get over yourself, and stop feeling better than other people just because of something you did at uni that others didn't do.But I digress.Even considering the fact that the field of history isn't a real science, that doesn't mean that it's not important to study it! you when you start learning from historyStudying history will make your eyes bleed because you learn that humans are basically idiots who make the same mistakes, over and over again. Problematic fact is that many developers have not studied history, and I can tell. They think their jobs are safe, that they are on the good side of a non-existing line. That they have more in common with the billionaires, that…