Well I do interview self-taught people when their CVs are stellar, but I’ve yet to find one that was the better option. I’m sure you can potentially get a CS degree and never learn anything but I don’t get the point…
I think everyone can learn to write an app by following a few YouTube videos. This is how we’ve got our project managers and lean-operators to write RPA projects in python after all. On the flip side, I’ve never…
You can certainly have a degree in CS and suck, but the odds of that happening are much lower than with people who don’t have a CS degree. Why should I waste the resources if I have enough decent candidates? The…
I’ve hired a lot of people, I do a lot of networking and I work as an examiner for CS students, I’ve never seen someone who was self-educated remotely compare to someone with a degree. It just doesn’t happen in a…
I’ve never hired someone who was self-taught, not because self-taught people can’t be equal or better, but because you’re trying to buy security and stability. The most expensive mistake you can make as a manager is…
No. But I probably should have been more clear. I mean, first of all, there are more cities than Copenhagen. I have a 3 room 92m^2 apartment that is 15 minute walking distance from Aarhus H that cost us 2.2 million.…
But does medium have readers? I mean, I read medium articles when they appear here on HN, but I’m not really a medium reader, and unlike personal blogs, where I will bookmark you if I find you interesting I’ll never…
Do you have a medium account? Because I don’t, and I don’t think anyone in my network does either. I can see why you would use YouTube, videos aren’t easy to self host, but I’m really not sure why anyone would chose…
In Denmark we have a fairly recent political party called Liberal Alliance. They were funded by billionaire, bank owner and businessman Lars Seier Christensen for almost 10 years and at their height achieved 7% of the…
As I understood it, scripting languages will still be available to the user, they just won’t have ancient versions preinstalled. Of course that also means you can’t rely on them being installed at all as a developer.…
I think the top submissions have declined somewhat over the years. Maybe it’s just my personal taste that’s changed, but I like two types of articles. The ones that are interesting and the ones that are actually useful…
I’m Danish and I realise our benefits and rights are generally a lot better than most places, but I would never work 70 hours a week unless I owned the company. So I think you have the right idea in leaving as soon as…
Is it? Because I’m fairly nearsighted and have astigmatism, which can make text on screens very blurry when there is a low contrast, and it’s a lot worse with dark mode. Still, I agree that having both a light and a…
If actual usage reflected front page position we’d all be talking about C, C#, JAVA or PHP. I follow a few job agents because I do part time work as an examiner for applied CS students, and I occasionally advice on what…
I think it’s a lot easier to be anonymous if you keep them, but never use them for anything real. I quit using Facebook two years ago, but I didn’t stop posting the occasional picture of some event I attended. I simply…
We’re required to have password expiration by law in the public sector of Denmark. So I’m sure we’ll continue to have it for at least some years to come. I must admit I never really understood the function of it.…
There is Runbox, a Norwegian fastmail equivalent if you’re looking for something non-American, but g-suite e-mail offers privacy.
It’s a quite interesting question. Our national tax ministry has had almost nothing of expensive scandals over the past 15 years. Two years ago they setup a focused devops team inside their organisation. I don’t know…
Why does it need refactoring? Because you think you can write it better or because you can actually improve its efficiency? If it’s the former, don’t. If it’s the latter turn it into a task and have it prioritised.
I’ve worked in the private sector though, things weren’t better there.
When you buy big enterprise systems you enter contracts that aren’t easy to exit. You also bind so much money into those contracts that you don’t really want to leave them either, even if the company sucks at…
What high quality software? I work in the public sector in Denmark, we operate 300-500 systems from private suppliers and none of them work, none of them are particularly cheap either. Our medical software on life…
Having worked both in the public and private sectors I think it’s actually the exact opposite. If we miss a deadline, or if a system goes down when it really wasn’t supposed to the consequences can be as severe as…
You don’t actually have to setup your web-development environment like the hype dictates. I mean, work in a Danish municipality with more than 5k employees and 60k citizens who directly use our, mainly web-based,…
Who benefits from anti-vaccination or flat-earth? Conspiracy theories are probably a lucrative industry if you get enough of a following.
Well I do interview self-taught people when their CVs are stellar, but I’ve yet to find one that was the better option. I’m sure you can potentially get a CS degree and never learn anything but I don’t get the point…
I think everyone can learn to write an app by following a few YouTube videos. This is how we’ve got our project managers and lean-operators to write RPA projects in python after all. On the flip side, I’ve never…
You can certainly have a degree in CS and suck, but the odds of that happening are much lower than with people who don’t have a CS degree. Why should I waste the resources if I have enough decent candidates? The…
I’ve hired a lot of people, I do a lot of networking and I work as an examiner for CS students, I’ve never seen someone who was self-educated remotely compare to someone with a degree. It just doesn’t happen in a…
I’ve never hired someone who was self-taught, not because self-taught people can’t be equal or better, but because you’re trying to buy security and stability. The most expensive mistake you can make as a manager is…
No. But I probably should have been more clear. I mean, first of all, there are more cities than Copenhagen. I have a 3 room 92m^2 apartment that is 15 minute walking distance from Aarhus H that cost us 2.2 million.…
But does medium have readers? I mean, I read medium articles when they appear here on HN, but I’m not really a medium reader, and unlike personal blogs, where I will bookmark you if I find you interesting I’ll never…
Do you have a medium account? Because I don’t, and I don’t think anyone in my network does either. I can see why you would use YouTube, videos aren’t easy to self host, but I’m really not sure why anyone would chose…
In Denmark we have a fairly recent political party called Liberal Alliance. They were funded by billionaire, bank owner and businessman Lars Seier Christensen for almost 10 years and at their height achieved 7% of the…
As I understood it, scripting languages will still be available to the user, they just won’t have ancient versions preinstalled. Of course that also means you can’t rely on them being installed at all as a developer.…
I think the top submissions have declined somewhat over the years. Maybe it’s just my personal taste that’s changed, but I like two types of articles. The ones that are interesting and the ones that are actually useful…
I’m Danish and I realise our benefits and rights are generally a lot better than most places, but I would never work 70 hours a week unless I owned the company. So I think you have the right idea in leaving as soon as…
Is it? Because I’m fairly nearsighted and have astigmatism, which can make text on screens very blurry when there is a low contrast, and it’s a lot worse with dark mode. Still, I agree that having both a light and a…
If actual usage reflected front page position we’d all be talking about C, C#, JAVA or PHP. I follow a few job agents because I do part time work as an examiner for applied CS students, and I occasionally advice on what…
I think it’s a lot easier to be anonymous if you keep them, but never use them for anything real. I quit using Facebook two years ago, but I didn’t stop posting the occasional picture of some event I attended. I simply…
We’re required to have password expiration by law in the public sector of Denmark. So I’m sure we’ll continue to have it for at least some years to come. I must admit I never really understood the function of it.…
There is Runbox, a Norwegian fastmail equivalent if you’re looking for something non-American, but g-suite e-mail offers privacy.
It’s a quite interesting question. Our national tax ministry has had almost nothing of expensive scandals over the past 15 years. Two years ago they setup a focused devops team inside their organisation. I don’t know…
Why does it need refactoring? Because you think you can write it better or because you can actually improve its efficiency? If it’s the former, don’t. If it’s the latter turn it into a task and have it prioritised.
I’ve worked in the private sector though, things weren’t better there.
When you buy big enterprise systems you enter contracts that aren’t easy to exit. You also bind so much money into those contracts that you don’t really want to leave them either, even if the company sucks at…
What high quality software? I work in the public sector in Denmark, we operate 300-500 systems from private suppliers and none of them work, none of them are particularly cheap either. Our medical software on life…
Having worked both in the public and private sectors I think it’s actually the exact opposite. If we miss a deadline, or if a system goes down when it really wasn’t supposed to the consequences can be as severe as…
You don’t actually have to setup your web-development environment like the hype dictates. I mean, work in a Danish municipality with more than 5k employees and 60k citizens who directly use our, mainly web-based,…
Who benefits from anti-vaccination or flat-earth? Conspiracy theories are probably a lucrative industry if you get enough of a following.