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Yeah, formal training is useless. When I go to the doctor, or a surgeon for an operation, I couldn't care less if they have a medical degree and years of formal training. As long as they've checked it up on wikipedia it's fine by me.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Yeah, formal training is useless.
I'm not implying that. My point is that certifications and degrees aren't sufficient to judge a developer's skills.
/ravi
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Udemy runs sales every so often, so for $9.99/course it's good enough(assuming the instructor isn't an idiot).
I usually do two courses for any given subject, either from Udemy or Udemy + Skillsoft to cover all the bases. (Linux+ cert courses at the moment)
Anyway, HR and strictly-management people are the ones who want you to have a cert. Tech people know better.
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Certs don't mean sh*t in the real world. All they show is that you can "talk the talk". But can you "walk the walk"?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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As per the consensus here, "certifications" are generally pretty meaningless. What you need is evidence that you bring value to the projects you work on. But beyond that, the certifications that might be useful for you depend on very much what you do, where you are, and who you want to work for. Some employers (the un-enlightened ones) may have a checklist, as may their recruitment agents. Find out what's on the list, get the cert, tick the box. Then go and show them whether you're any good. If you're working as a freelancer, who do you want to work for? If working for small businesses, most of their decision makers will have no technical background and being a "Certified Scrum Master" will just make them think you play rugby every weekend. Conversely if you want to get a gig with a national defense agency you'll need to prove your knowledge in, say, safety-critical realtime missile control systems.
If you don't know who your "target" is, you won't even know if you've hit it. Research your market and find out what they want, not what we think is good.
All that said, if you're dead-set on getting some certifications, probably the most recognised and respected (depending of course on WHAT it is you do) then Microsoft certifications are probably the ones to go for. Not easy or cheap to get (some of them, anyway) but that's rather the point and why they can be useful.
Take a step back and ask yourself "why" you want any certifications, then think about "what" certifications are relevant, then "who" can provide them.
Good luck!
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As most people seem to agree, I don't certifications will help in any role on a day to day basis. They are only worth while to get you past the first hurdle of the CV scan by a potential employer and get you to a face to face interview.
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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 ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"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
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