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Scuttlebutt was created by Dominic Tarr, a Node.js developer with more than 600 modules published on npm, who lives on a self-steering sailboat in New Zealand. "If you like this story, please share it to your on-grid social networks."
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Wow, it's really off-grid -- it's not even visible in webkit!
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Silicon Valley is starting to realize that the huge talent pool of nontraditional candidates may be the answer to its pipeline problem. *briefly considers burning degree for further job opportunities*
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Sean Ewington wrote: may be the answer to its pipeline problem.
or the damnation of their product
M.D.V. 
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I can honestly say that having worked with hundreds of developers in my time, I've never noticed any kind of correlation between whether or not someone has a degree and their ability to code their way out of a wet paper bag. Any company that makes a discrimination on those grounds is placing a needless and self-inflicted restriction on the pool of talent that they can draw from.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I am not saying that people without a degree can not program. I have already supported the opinion that it is not mandatory.
But, that there is a lot of people that can code doesn't mean that they can do it well. And with well I mean with methodology, following a structure, clean, secure...
And as an end note... my comment was a fully sarcastic joke due to the "IoT" news of the last weeks. There are a lot of crappy coders working on places where they shouldn't be (and I don't care if the have degree or not) and that should get their hands chopped off.
And I leave it there... if not, we will have to move this thread to the soapbox 
M.D.V. 
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No criticism of your post intended, I can assure you!
I do think it's all down to how people are taught, rather than where they're taught. It has sometimes surprised me how little of any value people have been taught on CS courses at generally well-regarded universities whereas people who have come through less prestigious routes often seem to have a far better overall comprehension of what constitutes good practice.
I guess the bottom line will always be that the people that techies would like to employ often tick very different boxes from the kind that are ticked by the people that HR departments like to employ. The best advice on developer recruitment that I could give any company would be to let the developers chose the developers and not let HR types anywhere near the process!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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PeejayAdams wrote: The best advice on developer recruitment that I could give any company would be to let the developers chose the developers and not let HR types anywhere near the process!
Amen
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GUN violence in America gets plenty of attention, but cars kill more. Around 40,000 people a year die on American roads, more than all fatalities caused by firearms Seems plausible
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It's not a zero sum equation.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I can confidently say that Opera isn’t a better browser than Chrome or Safari on either iOS or macOS. What I can say, however, is that it feels like a better fit for me than either of them. I switched from macOS to Windows '95 and couldn't be happier
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Amazon may have to give up to £56 million in refunds for purchases of in-app downloadable content made by children. This comes after the company has dropped its appeal in the United States against such refunds becoming possible. Why yes, that big-screen TV and router were bought by my children
Oh, only in-app purchases. Dang.
Plus, no children to blame it on. Maybe the cat?
Also, I think it's pretty strange that Neowin posted the refund in pounds, when it might only apply in the US.
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Anyone know a guy who can make fake passports?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Neowin: Amazon may have to give up to £56 million in refunds for purchases of in-app downloadable content made by children
Kent Sharkey wrote: Why yes, that big-screen TV and router were bought by my children
If your kids figured out how to turn in app DLC into physical goods, I'd suggest giving up on the refund attempt and instead using the duplicator they invented to get rich by downloading diamonds, gold bars, etc.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It’s no secret that Google has developed its own custom chips to accelerate its machine learning algorithms. Breaking News: special-purpose chips faster than general-purpose chips
We now return you to your regular programming
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Discovered almost 10 years ago at CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration intense pulses of radio light that appear to be coming from vast distances. OK, it's not the microwave this time
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Quote: a lower limit on their distances of ≈ 10 ^ 4 km (limit of the telescope near-field) supporting the case for an astronomical origin.
Yes - 10 to the power 4 kilometres suggest astronomical origin to me too ...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: OK, it's not the microwave this time
But the microwave is still watching you.
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Golly!
It's "dark-but-not-really-dark-but-still-dark-because-I-said-so" energy!
TBH, I really am getting sick of hearing the astronomy world's fantasy cr@p.
E.g. they can tell us p1ss-all about Europa, Titan, and Callisto, but they're c**k-sure about microdots a million orders of magnitude further away.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration intense pulses of radio light that appear to be coming from vast distances
"it doesn't look like an SOS...it looks like a warning" 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Either that or they're flash-transmitting the recipe for human-rump soup.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Either that or they're flash-transmitting the recipe for human-rump soup.
I was going to post a link to images of the fattest people on Earth (thought it might be fun to start putting a menu together) but it even made me feel sick 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Ironic if it turned out to be Lrrrrr's microwave, back in Omicron Persei 8.
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$50 says that if you slow it down and analyze the pulse, it will decode to something like "you've just won a free cruise...."
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