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Coding bootcamps have been so successful that observers have wondered whether these programs are beginning to replace traditional college computer science degrees. As we all know, a 12 week stint will teach you everything you need to know about programming
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I do Excel sheets with formulas, I am a programmer 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Only if managers hire such inexperienced drones.
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Heck, life should replace college degrees. Every 10 years, you should earn a new degree automatically.
Marc
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I get more degrees in the summer.
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Marc Clifton wrote: you should earn a new degree automatically
I have been getting the third degree more than once every ten years.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I'd really like to see some first-person accounts by people who've attended various boot-camps about what the experience was like, how they evaluate what (if anything) they learned from it.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I really wish they'd've shown a longer period for CS degree rates. The big peak around 02-03 corresponds to people who entered CS programs near the peak of y2k and the dotcom bubble, with the slump afterwards fitting with the dot bomb and resulting job shortage. Going back into the 90s would be helpful to see if the period approaching the peak was steady growth or stablish feeding into the bubble peak. On the other end, talking about the situation today while only having data going to 2012 tends to hurt your credibility. 2013 data should have been available for a while, and I'd be surprised if 2014 data hadn't been finalized by now too.
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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In a spot of bad news for privacy advocates, the FCC explained today that it will not force websites to accept "Do Not Track" requests, which are used to ask websites to not follow visitors around the web through advertising networks and analytics services. Maybe they should add another checkbox for, "Pretty please, with sugar on top?"
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It would be unenforcable anyway. How can a company prove they're not doing it?
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I've always thought this DNT idiocy was "invented" to catch gullible punters anyway.
Unenforceable, useless, etc. isn't even a consideration. It's more like: "Oh so you don't want any spam? Well ... just for that we'll FOCUS ON YOU, now we 'know' who to target!" Same reason (in reverse) add-blockers are actually to add-agency's betterment - they need not pay for those ads to "customers" who'd most likely see it as negative advertising.
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That's ok; Privacy Badger[^] detects any 3rd party that's trying to track me and completely blocks them for doing so. 
At home anyway; I ran into a bunch of weirdness with random stuff being missing on pages at work. I'm tentatively blaming their security proxy since it wouldn't be the first time they horked stuff up.  I'm still using disconnect there; but a decent amount of crap isn't coming through even with it and ABP turned off. No clue if the stuff going missing even when I'm not filtering is being intentionally blocked, or if is more evidence of bluecoat being a steaming POS but I'm not complaining either way.
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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Interesting!
Scientists on the verge of finding Queen Nefertiti's secret tomb: Heat detectors pick up chamber that could be secret room at the center of archaeologists sensational claims
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New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Exactly and he certainly had his share of toys buried with him.
Will the secret chamber expose the real Tut? What was he really into? 
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Is that where the grain was stored? 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Whips and chains and cuffs oh my…
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Bloomberg: "Can an Algorithm Prove You Won’t Quit Your Next Job?" 11.05.2015
"The data Pegged uses come from three different buckets: public records, including anything you can Google; background information, such as résumés and credentials; and interaction data drawn from prospective employees’ applications.
By measuring and feeding into its algorithms a job candidate’s keystrokes, how many seconds she spends on a page, and whether and when she closes a browser tab, Pegged says, it can learn about how she might perform.
It narrows down the applicants to the handful who have the highest chance of succeeding in a given job, according to its algorithms. Hiring managers take it from there.
To test how people might react in a high-stress situation, for example, Pegged will throw a calculus question at someone who might not have a background in math, and then measure his reaction. Does he freeze up? Exit the page? Enter an answer and then change it?" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-05/can-an-algorithm-prove-you-won-t-quit-your-next-job-[^]
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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This honestly sounds like a perfectly terrible algorithm.
Some "computer scientist" decides he can measure all of the inputs which will indicate you will stay at your job, but there are so many intangibles. Suddenly, non-thinking hiring managers won't hire people because the algorithm told them not to.
It's a Brave New World, Big Brother is watching and he knows if you've been naughty or nice. 
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Ancient Mars was likely warm and wet, much like Earth. So what happened to change it? Why else would bottled water be so expensive?
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In pretty much every industry, from politics to computer programming, the goal is to eventually become an expert at what you do. ...until you know everything about nothing
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I prefer being an expert in a few fields than ajack of all trades.
While I know that knowing a little about many topics is versatile, many times deep knowledge about a few things is absolutely indispensable. That's why I'm picky about what to learn and stay away from the flamboiantly marketed variations of the same technologies or the flashy "new language/feature of the future" and prefer to learn only the real new architectures, on the low level.
I know this is a hard way and it rewards later - or never if unlucky - but I really prefer it that way. I never learnt Flash and was considered a loser - Flash is ultimately dying and I learnt IA32 in that time. I started using it 10 years later but now it is a valuable knowledge in some fields. I stood away from JSP and... what is of JSP now? PHP 4? In a couple of years it changed completely with PHP5 and now ASP.NET is going strong. C++ instead is still there, still used and necessary.
That's only my opinion of course and I could be proven wrong... I just hope not!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Already Microsoft is far ahead of where it was when Nadella took over in early 2014, the year after the company wrote down excess Surface tablets and Windows 8 flopped. And they don't care who they have to destroy to get that!
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Quote: Microsoft just wants to be loved
When they will understand that a large share of its faithful customers are business, and that they don't want innovation at all cost, and they prefer stability and reliability, MS will certainly be loved much more.
Events like the MS Office menu vanished, or the Windows 8, when they simply ignored all the negative feedback from beta testers, show that didn't care about faithful customers not so long ago.
Last news about W10 automatic spying do not show a lot of respect to faithful customers.
I am bad, it is not my fault, I am that way. Please love me.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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