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Anything that HR lists on the job posting. Seriously, certifications generally are only useful to get past HR and to the actual hiring manager.
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In 47 years, interviewing thousands, hiring many hundreds, managing large and small projects and teams, I never considered certs in the process. Never. Not once. I have gotten certs, and I have paid teams to get certified in something specific (like Windows NT, when it was new; Java, when it was new; AWS, when it was new). But, I never told HR, and I never looked at resumes, to see if someone had a particular cert. The work they did, their experience, told me they were "certified".
The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker
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The one your company pays for.
(personally I believe getting a university library card is better money spent)
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I had an Oracle cert. Full OCP, back when it was the only cert Oracle offered.
I got it because I thought it would be a career changer.
But every time I'd apply for a job in MS-SQL server or Crystal Reports they'd look at that and say "well, he's got that cert, he must be good". And it would help me get the job.
Years later, still no Oracle job. But that non-related cert mattered over and over. On those very rare occasions when they asked why I didn't have an Oracle career behind me, I'd say that the MS-SQL Server jobs were what was available.
On top of that, I've noted when interviewing people that no matter what cert you have IT DOESN'T GET YOU OUT OF THE TECHNICAL INTERVIEW. You still have to stand in front of the whiteboard and go over whatever it is you are supposed to do. You still do the dance. Experience is the big factor, and the ability to get along with others is the second.
My advice, based on all that, is to get one that imparts actual knowledge to you that is relevant to your career. My Oracle cert imparted knowledge that became relevant when I'd have to speak to the differences between database systems. If you don't think it will be a respected cert, take the classes for the knowledge and don't bother to pay for testing. A MySQL cert path for a programmer strikes me as an example of value added. Or taking the MongoDB or Cassandra
The other issue worth bringing up are the people with too many certs. We used to call them "paper tigers" because they had all the certs and none of the necessary know-how. Some people are good test-takers, and it actually detracts since most of us know it. So if you have a ton of certs, don't put them all on the resume you give to a company. Just put in the few they asked for or one or two that impress managers.
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Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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The one from the psychiatrist.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In English "to be certified" can mean that one has been certified as insane
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The answer: none. My career has best been helped by a combination of University Education and experience, and more recently by my accomplishments. No certification program could now equal what I know and can bring to a company. To me Certification programs are aimed at increasing profits for the companies that offer them.
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Some weeks ago the trouble started when a colleague did a commit on Git of the Boost library which consisted of thousands of files.
It first crippled our TeamCity CI builder, luckily the folks at JetBrains solved the problem within a week, it had to do with the increased number of database transactions apparently.
Then our "Codec" solution (C# and C++) started showing build problems on the builder and the TeamCity build log showed only reams of gobbledigook.
After much trial and error I could solve the build problem by using an MsBuild option to disable parallel processing.
The problems did not stop there, now the video playback of our Video Surveillance product won't work as it should anymore.
Sigh. 
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RickZeeland wrote: did a commit
RickZeeland wrote: which consisted of thousands of files.
modified 5-Apr-21 5:31am.
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Yes, yes, I know should be: a commit and a push
This is still speak from my SVN period 
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I was more interested in the thousands of files bit, in one commit. how does that happen? first time commit/push?
I was not commenting on semantics.
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The Boost library that was used is quite large, more than 14000 files, and it was all in one commit
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Quote: 14000 files
All I can say is: Wow! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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That is the best argument I can think of for not using it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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RickZeeland wrote: the video playback of our Video Surveillance product
That sounds like feature bloat anyway 
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Exactly, who needs video anyway, it's also a problem when we want to Dockerize things 
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I laughed. Shamelessly.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Sounds like something that should be introduced and tested on a separate branch.
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It was committed on the "development" branch, and although this is not released in the field I agree that creating a separate feature branch would have been better.
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So I re-enabled Windows Update on the "work" laptop to see if it would solve some other problems. Now every time Windows updates, I get some new junk in the "Apps" folder (mind you, I'm using Classic Start Menu, so I only notice because suddenly Apps is highlighted.
First, it's Candy Crush and something else. A few days later, it's Slack (which I love, but we're using Teams) and Weather.
Microsoft, STOP INSTALLING STUFF I DON'T NEED OR WANT OR USE!!!! 
Time to reactivate NoVirusThanks Win Update Stop. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: First, it's Candy Crush and something else.
B...b...but it's the new and improved Candy Crush, with tastier candy, bigger crushers, and all-new icons! Won't you please reconsider?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Microsoft, STOP INSTALLING STUFF I DON'T NEED OR WANT OR USE!!!!
Isn't this pretty much a classic definition of Malware?
Begs a question: how do you fix malware if your O/S is designed as malware?
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Your problem is the third party Classic Start Menu. I'm pretty sure Candy Crush is hiding on my hard drive but I've never seen it in my start menu. Think of Candy Crush as the same type of crapware that every cell phone carrier puts on their "branded" cell phones and ignore it.
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See also here[^]
I too use Classic Shell 
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Happy Easter!!
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
modified 5-Apr-21 11:05am.
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