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I have difficulty finding jobs despite having these certs. My advice is only to pursue certs if it is in your strong interest or intrinsic motivation to improve/enhance your knowledge in that area. Salary does not usually commensurate with certs. Hiring manager is more concerned whether you are able to do the job. Of course, during the final stage of hiring and the selection comes down to 2 similarly experienced candidates, the one with cert will win out.
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Off topic. It is great website you running there.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Look at job ads in your area -- what certs are part of the hiring criteria? Technologies (and related certs) vary by region. Knowing your own job market is in your best interest.
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None, waste of time. Just get a job. There's so many jobs out there for programmers you don't have time to waste on certifications, diplomas or the like. If you're not making over 100k after 2 years then you're not cut out for this work. O:
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I have to disagree with most of the people when they say a cert is useless. I've landed 2 or 3 jobs because I had a Microsoft cert. A lot of people are predicting that Data Science and AI are the best certs to have for 2020 job search. Good luck buddy.
"Dreams really do come true."
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don't concentrate too much on software development certs. two or three at max is my opinion.
instead go for hardware certification, networking, routing... that would make you stand out.
if i was to hire people for a programmer job i wouldn't pay much attention to "developer" courses, unless it was LISP.
and if you go for software certs, as Abraham pointed out, go for data science and AI.
programming languages come and go, data stays.
good luck
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: F*** cancer! I second that!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I third that!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I only knew "The Look", which was such a good song. Condoleances
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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A great loss indeed, their songs were very popular in the Netherlands
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No doubt it's possible to corrupt an MP3 file if an MP3 tag editor is somehow buggy. That's why I tend to take the time to listen to MP3s after I rip a CD and then tag the files (or take an existing MP3 and just re-tag it...I'm paranoid in that way).
But what about files that have simply been left sitting on disk for months or even years?
I have MP3s that seem to have developed audible clicks and ticks and simply garbled sound without me having changed them in any way, shape or form (as far as I can tell). If an MP3 player offers to "automatically update tags with information downloaded from the internet", I disable that.
I realize bit rot is a thing, but if I'm otherwise not noticing any sort of data corruption with any other type of file...why would this only happen with MP3 files? Digital files are just that, 0s and 1s, and I see no reason for them to change on their own over time (that should simply not ever happen)...yet I'm hearing evidence some of my MP3s are not what they used to be...
Thoughts? Speculation...?
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v1 Tags are appended to the end of the file, while v2 tags are prepended, if I remember properly. There is no reason for a tagging software to modify anything inside the audio stream.
I digitalized all my cd's to mp3 years ago, and I still listen to them, having transfered them numerous times between my computers/phones/NAS; I never noticed any degradation of the audio signal.
Did you test offending files on several equipments, to be sure the file is the culprit?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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your machine doesn't like your taste of music.
but serially have you tried playing it with another app, or perhaps another machine? maybe the original encoding app "relied on some feature" which player updates have since "fixed"?
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DRM*
* Destroy Random Music
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Better or worse error correction in the mp3 codec ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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It's almost certainly NOT the MP3 itself. I would suspect the player. Try another one.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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See my other responses. I've tried multiple players, and - in some cases, if I have an older backup that plays fine - a binary comparison will show the files are different...
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As others have said, I would suspect the player not the files. The only 'scratches' I hear from my library are those tracks that were ripped from CDs.
BTW, long ago I started a personal project to catalog my music library by using the ID3 tags. I found out quick that they are totally unreliable and have major shortcomings that made them unsuitable for that purpose. (truncated names either at 30 or 60 chars depending on version)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: (truncated names either at 30 or 60 chars depending on version) Those are ID3v1 tags. ID3v2.4, which has been the dominant specification for almost 15 years, is a lot more flexible. I use a program called MP3tag[^] and have found it to work well.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's the one I use.
I find it doubtful it's the player, as I've tried WMP, VLC (my player of choice) and foobar2000.
Also--and more importantly--every once in a while I come across one of those files, then look it up in my most recent backup set. If I'm lucky, I didn't yet overwrite the "good" backup of the MP3 with the version on my NAS (now with the audible clicks). And if I do a file compare, the files are different. I think that, by itself, rules out any sort of playback mechanism subtleties between different players.
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And now over to the next step: corrupting MP4's
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