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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…

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 al…

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 hav…

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 deg…

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 m…

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…

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 i…

In Denmark where I live you can loan 1 million Danish kroner at around 5k each month. A decent downtown apartment in a bigger city or a house in the suburbs is 2-4 million. Renting…

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 rea…

I think there is a lot of tinkering available still. Raspberry pis and IOT are areas where you can really go nuts. I do hope we’ll see hardware open up again, and maybe we will wit…

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 a…

My wife is using my old mbp late 2015 and it does everything she needs a laptop to do. If I hadn’t gotten myself a usb-c setup both in the office and at work it would also be doing…

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 be…

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…

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…

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 a…

I think this is horrible advice, and while it’s anecdotal I’ve seen no reason to suggest that not writing code comments leads to higher quality code. I once managed a developer who…

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 stud…

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 pict…

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 reall…

There is Runbox, a Norwegian fastmail equivalent if you’re looking for something non-American, but g-suite e-mail offers privacy.