I'm not saying that I would take the same avenue today. If I were 20 years younger and looking at the same field, a degree or other form of post-secondary schooling is nearly essential to do what I am doing.
The job descriptions usually have an X year degree or Y years of practical and related experience. Y is usually somewhat larger than X.
I graduated Grade 12 in the early 80's. Was going to go for a CS degree but put it off for a year while I worked. Then another year went by, and so on.
Back then, the vast bulk of "nerds" loved this stuff as a hobby and could slide into a work role easy enough. Then people started going to school to 'learn teh computerz' as it seemed like an easy way to make cash. Those are the folks who were dumped during the dot-bomb.
Fact is many of the best IT folks I know who also have excellent technical skill were self-taught.
Thief Gold, Thief 2 and Thief: Deadly Shadows are available DRM-free on GOG.com. Those plus DarkLoader for fan mission and you have a virtually unlimited amount of gameplay.
I use BitCoin to make donations to various Linux projects. That way when I download all those Linux ISOs on BitTorrent, I really feel like I'm sticking it to The Man.
I absolutely love the ~1 year old news site Quartz. I forget how I found it, but it's been a great. The "While you were sleeping" sections in the email updates keeps you up to date on events around the clock.
Slashdot Mirror
"Dear Human Products,
Google will be placing large, targeted ads across your search results.
Thank you for your personal information.
Do Know Evil,
Google
Thank you Slashdot Team, I was waiting this story. It's really great user friendly and smooth.
Wait for the kooks and quacks to start polluting vaccine and autism related articles with their woo.
I run BitTorrent Sync among several machines and keep backups with SpiderOak. Their zero-knowledge policy lets me sleep well at night.
Audi allows updates to their MMI through the SD card reader. I've done it.
I want a tighter tablet, not a looser one. Perhaps I should reconsider.
iPad is the one to beat, this does not do it.
I'm not saying that I would take the same avenue today. If I were 20 years younger and looking at the same field, a degree or other form of post-secondary schooling is nearly essential to do what I am doing.
The job descriptions usually have an X year degree or Y years of practical and related experience. Y is usually somewhat larger than X.
I graduated Grade 12 in the early 80's. Was going to go for a CS degree but put it off for a year while I worked. Then another year went by, and so on.
Back then, the vast bulk of "nerds" loved this stuff as a hobby and could slide into a work role easy enough. Then people started going to school to 'learn teh computerz' as it seemed like an easy way to make cash. Those are the folks who were dumped during the dot-bomb.
Fact is many of the best IT folks I know who also have excellent technical skill were self-taught.
Oh yes, more Thief is always good.
Thief Gold, Thief 2 and Thief: Deadly Shadows are available DRM-free on GOG.com. Those plus DarkLoader for fan mission and you have a virtually unlimited amount of gameplay.
Go get it, you taffers!
All they'd have to do is tweet a hash of the headline and summary. SHA512 preferred, MD5 would give us more dupes.
I use BitCoin to make donations to various Linux projects. That way when I download all those Linux ISOs on BitTorrent, I really feel like I'm sticking it to The Man.
I absolutely love the ~1 year old news site Quartz. I forget how I found it, but it's been a great. The "While you were sleeping" sections in the email updates keeps you up to date on events around the clock.
Wickr claims a zero knowledge policy, encryption/decryption is done on the devices.
That had me laughing, thanks!
Killer rabbits? They are already here.
Blackberry.
They are making it to sell to themselves.
Of course there will be no government-mandated backdoors in this.
You lie!
"Do Evil." Google's new slogan.
2014 will be both the year of Linux on the Desktop and Linux in the Pocket!
Was Andrew Wakefield involved?
Be a champ: configure your company's squid proxy to replace all images with goatse guy.
RIM made the Playbook dirt cheap. How'd that work out?
Don't tell me... you were one of the original developers of QDOS?