Most definitively there is more to learn than what you learn in game development.
Heck, since I left the industry I've been working on a few projects that taxed me as well (multi-platform threading code, nginx custom modules, metrology algorithms (most of the math here went over my head to be honest)). But in all honesty, and I may just have been unlucky, most developers I know can't do C/C++ or any kind of memory management in non GC languages and have trouble developing algorithms that a bit more complex than qsort.
As I pointed out, I find it sad that most replies on the older thread to 'when you need performance you just drop down to C for that part of the code' where complaining that most Ruby/Python developers couldn't do it. Comparing this with having someone (and that was over my head) profiling the damn game for cache misses on the Xbox 360, and you can understand why I said what I did.
Fair enough. There are a lot of tedious jobs out there - but there are plenty of varied bigcorps (e.g. Google, AMD, Goldman Sachs, NASA) of whom the following isn't true: "Compared to most folks [I know] that didn't spend time in the industry, their only experience with those topics was a semester in University."
Heck, since I left the industry I've been working on a few projects that taxed me as well (multi-platform threading code, nginx custom modules, metrology algorithms (most of the math here went over my head to be honest)). But in all honesty, and I may just have been unlucky, most developers I know can't do C/C++ or any kind of memory management in non GC languages and have trouble developing algorithms that a bit more complex than qsort.
As I pointed out, I find it sad that most replies on the older thread to 'when you need performance you just drop down to C for that part of the code' where complaining that most Ruby/Python developers couldn't do it. Comparing this with having someone (and that was over my head) profiling the damn game for cache misses on the Xbox 360, and you can understand why I said what I did.