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To me, certifications are only for managers that don't have any skill or background themselves. And I will admit, I have thought of doing the CSM certification because it is quick and easy. I believe that someone who is strong academically is more knowledgeable than someone with a few certifications. I'll take someone with a MS over someone with an associates degree or no degree at all if they have comparable experience. It shows they follow through what they have started, understand high-level topics, and are great problem solvers. Lastly, it is too easy to find answers to certifications on the Internet. I've heard that measureup.com pretty much gives you the answers.
I agree with the article that a good interview can show if an applicant has the technical skills and composure to work in an interviewers group.
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There are courses today that let you take - and pass - almost any MS certification within 2 months...
It's a joke!!!
I watched some videos at Microsoft Academy and answered all the questions after it, to prove what? That I have a fairly good short-time memory? So I have a certificate that I completed SQL 2012 Reporting Services course with 100% success, but I do nothing about Reporting Services as I never ever used it!
I also completed Advanced Windows Store App Development with HTML5 with the same result - but even you hit me I can't remember where to start with...
All these certifications were at the base of the blow of the hi-tech-bubble around the year 2000, when it became obvious that script-kids with 1-2-3 courses and a dozen of different certifications will not take the industry nowhere...
The only true certificate has two parts: a long-time learned, solid base of knowledge and real-life experience...These two will be combined - in time - into the ability to master different fields and technologies, not the quick-came-quick-goes cerificates we see around...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I believe that certificates can provide evidence that you at least understand the basics of a particular technology and have a good grounding in it. But they can't and shouldn't be seen as replacements for hard won experience from the trenches. They can be seen as a complement to experience, but never as a replacement.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Does being certified insane count?
I reeeeaaaaalllllyyyy wanna put that on my CV! BTW, that's the reason for the certification!
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What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour. First they came for the testers, and I did nothing because I wasn't a tester...
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This is a very specific method of reverse engineering for a very specific application. I doubt it will be applicable across the universe...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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True, but you might be able to take the idea and make another very specific method for another very specific type of application.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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If I read it right Helium does nothing else but makes it possible to recompile the old code to optimize it - I can't see a hint about actual changes to the original logic...So the machines are not raising after all...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A consultant has claimed that The Oracle Corporation has this year adopted new and aggressive techniques to drive its enterprise clients into adding unwanted cloud options to existing contracts in order to avoid being driven completely out of the Oracle infrastructure. "A leopard cannot change its spots"
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IBM irRational did something similar to my employer a few years back. Short term the sales weasel scored a several year contract worth significantly more than the old one. Long term the stunt left a sufficiently bad taste in managements mouths that the end of that long term contract saw all of the major irRational tools sunsetted one after the next. It's possible the company still has a Rose license for a UML addict; but all three of what were semi-mass use tools (ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro) are gone. And there was much rejoicing.
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 Core Infrastructure Initiative survey of at-risk software most in need of close attention, many fundamental Linux utilities sit at the top. ... of open source software. Don't worry Flash, you're still #1 to me.
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Look, let’s face it: Ruby tools are terrible. Because Marc isn't the only one that feels that way
Or:
You had me at terrible (OK, it's not quite that bad, just ... quirky)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because Marc isn't the only one that feels that way
 Awesome!
Marc
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Why have they used a picture of Rust? 
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As Eric Lippert put it a few years ago when talking about the differences between strongly typed compiled languages and dynamically timed scripting languages is that the former give you a huge set of "unit tests" that are created by the language spec, are automatically updated every time you edit the code, and then are ran every time you click the compile button.
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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However, the biggest contrast highlighted in the video is between Ruby and Smalltalk, another dynamic language.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Video? Is that linked to somewhere in the article body, even with my content blocker off I'm not seeing one.
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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Dan Neely wrote: the former give you a huge set of "unit tests" that are created by the language spec
Exactly. And also mirrors my experience -- 50% or more of the coding time is writing tests / single stepping through the Ruby code, simply to make sure there isn't a type problem, a typo, or some other issue.
Marc
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It's even worse if you're working on a short term project and glacial procurement means having to do with only sublime and printf debugging to do all the type/value/etc snooping that an IDE would make much easier.
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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Dan Neely wrote: It's even worse if you're working on a short term project and glacial procurement
Ugh. I guess slower than the 30 day trial of RubyMine, eh? Eclipse is free though.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Ugh. I guess slower than the 30 day trial of RubyMine, eh?
Potentially. Enough that I didn't want to risk it anyway...
Marc Clifton wrote: Eclipse is free though.
I didn't realize eclipse spoke Ruby. Might have to try it if I ever get another project using it again. As much as I detest it, at least I do know more or less how to use it. 
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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Lies are a fact of life. But technology may soon make them obsolete. But of course, the article could be lying.
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Easy with dumb liars. It might have trouble with Epimenides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 9-Jul-15 22:30pm.
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Quote: dumb liars
Epimenides was a Cretan not a Cretin!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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See On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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