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  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Casual Eddy wrote: »
    Yes getting a cs job without a cs degree has been... not fun

    Often like a physics or math degree counts and no degree is a huge barrier and I'm like :confused:

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  • Kid PresentableKid Presentable Registered User regular
    Honk wrote: »
    Kid Presentable wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    I liked Mindhunters because Anna Torv fed that stray cat in the laundry room window. That was nice.

    I really like Anna Torv should I watch Mindhunters

    I think so, it was good although creepy.

    There's a lot of murdertalk and killertalk in it.

    hmm I don't generally like murderstuff but

    are there perhaps two Anna Torvs in it?
    like, there's one and then also a different one with different colored hair?

    that's the kind of Anna Torv content I enjoy and am accustomed to

  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    Powerpuppies wrote: »
    A degree is really preposterously helpful in getting an entry level computing job

    Where I work, the only way to get a programming job without a degree is to start in Sales or Manufacturing and swim against the current. Prove yourself by working your normal job AND going above and beyond, shoehorning in programming and showing it off to the right people.

    It’s been done a few times and I’m super impressed when someone does it, but it takes like 5 years and it’s real hard and if you have a degree you can just waltz right in the door by contrast.

    The whole self-taunt programmer thing has been mostly dead for a while, all the big places want degrees to even look at you

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Kid Presentable wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    Kid Presentable wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    I liked Mindhunters because Anna Torv fed that stray cat in the laundry room window. That was nice.

    I really like Anna Torv should I watch Mindhunters

    I think so, it was good although creepy.

    There's a lot of murdertalk and killertalk in it.

    hmm I don't generally like murderstuff but

    are there perhaps two Anna Torvs in it?
    like, there's one and then also a different one with different colored hair?

    that's the kind of Anna Torv content I enjoy and am accustomed to

    Mindhunters is about the FBI people who try to get the FBI to get onboard with the entire idea of there being "serial killers" and also that understanding them helps catching them

    not really the murderstuff. It's very good, I think.

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    I am tired.

    I was in Pennsylvania the last two days for a friends wedding. Yesterday was basically a full day of low level drinking with a lot of drinking at the end. The hotel I stayed at kind of sucked and I didn't really sleep at all.

    I am kind of out of it today.

    But I drove home and walked the dog. Just kind of zoning out and watching the last episode of the current season of Terrance House after watching Venture Bros last night. Venture Bros was really really good.

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  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Phyphor wrote: »
    Donkey Kong wrote: »
    Powerpuppies wrote: »
    A degree is really preposterously helpful in getting an entry level computing job

    Where I work, the only way to get a programming job without a degree is to start in Sales or Manufacturing and swim against the current. Prove yourself by working your normal job AND going above and beyond, shoehorning in programming and showing it off to the right people.

    It’s been done a few times and I’m super impressed when someone does it, but it takes like 5 years and it’s real hard and if you have a degree you can just waltz right in the door by contrast.

    The whole self-taunt programmer thing has been mostly dead for a while, all the big places want degrees to even look at you

    I mean I've worked with several people without a degree, some who got the job recently

    It's not hopeless

    It just sucks and takes forever even if you succeed and you get paid less

    I wouldn't necessarily tell someone not to try a boot camp if a four year program wasn't on the table

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    r/mildlyinteresting time before I go to bed early enough for once

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  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    This thread is no longer active, and will be recycled.
    On average, this thread was zooming by at warp 1.8

    @Elendil will create the new thread
    @visiblehowl is backup

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