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On 8/6/2018 at 12:46 PM, OCD-FREAK said:

so you are saying that MCSA - LPIC-1 - CCNA is not recognized? and what do you mean by they will be useless few years later? i know people that have been using these certificates for 10 years.  

Actually using them and just getting as many different certificates as you can aren't the same thing, knowledge you don't use will soon be forgotten. Either way a few years of actual work experience far exceeds any cert especially with the pace of technology.

Honestly you're wasting your time. The certificates you're going after aren't all that desirable and after a few years of not using them as good as worthless especially after getting unrelated certificates on top.

Decide what you actually want to do, find a recognised educational course, complete it and get a job in that area. I lead a team of 5 for a FTSE 100 company and regularly interview software engineers, show me actual work experience any day!

Experience > Qualifications. Get a degree to find your first job or start at a really small company that doesn't even require that and then work your way up learning as you go.

Equally doing a job you actually want is worth a lot more than a job you applied for just because it pays more.

On 4/11/2018 at 5:22 PM, AngryBeaver said:

Yes they are trying to get even more power over the people and private entities. That is a big problem for the US people.The government doesn't get to stick their nose into everything despite what they THINK they might need to do. This is just more government corruption and power grabbing at its finest.

 Any government should be looking to protect the privacy of its citizens. Private companies in many cases hold more data about people than the government and it should be protected.

On 4/11/2018 at 5:53 PM, AngryBeaver said:

It wasn't facebook that stole information.

 

That right of privacy is there, but it pertains to PII. It involves things like SSN, CCN, financing information, protected client privileged information, medical records, etc...

 

The EU laws do offer more protection, but until next month facebook is still following EU law.

 

And lastly the GDPR is a joke. It states that continued breach will result in a penalty of 4% of annual profits or a 20 million fine. To a company that is selling personal information for profit this would likely be a drop in the bucket.

Facebook may not have stolen any information but it would seem in some cases (Android call logs) they have collected more information than what was appropriate.

PII (Personally Identifiable Information) covers a lot more than what you have listed. Anything that can be used to identify a person including a Name is PII.

Yes GDPR doesn't come in until next month however its an extension to existing country specific data protection like the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and it could be argued that some of their current practices are not compliant such as the collection (and continued storage) of call and message logs.

GDPR is hardly a joke, the fine is actually 4% of global annual turnover. So using Facebook's turnover last year a fine could be as much as $1.6 billion on on profits of $15.9 billion, that's over 10% plus potentially needing to pay compensation to individuals and prison sentences for executives. The fine is also calculated using turnover of the Ultimate Holding Company, so a breach in YouTube would be calculated based on turnover of Alphabet as a whole.

4 hours ago, Samputio said:

None of the skills you listed, including writing good code, is dependent on if a person has a degree. 

A degree certainly isn't the perfect solution however actually being assessed goes a way towards identifying where people make mistakes and put them back on the correct path. The problem with learning online is there is too much incorrect or outdated information out there and people often end up going the wrong way and picking up bad habits.

4 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Though a lot of the what was listed in that post is either company specific or is not really useful or relevant in a wider schema of things. I find it more useful to be able to adapt quickly to what the company does rather than try to soak in as much as possible, only to find out you only really need like 10% of what you accrued. It is useful to know what those are on a higher level detail, but it's not useful to know anything specific unless you really need it.

Yes the list is based on my experiences however I feel most of the wider points are valid. Yes any version control experience is great and you could replace Linux with Windows but the rest should be relevant in most companies and if they aren't they should be.

Other qualifications/certifications can help as well as professional memberships. I'm a member of the BCS and have completed Certified Scrum Master training. Keeping skills up to date and learning new things is just as important once in a job.

I have 3 Star Wars ducks on my desk

44 minutes ago, Samputio said:

This is a common thought in the thread, but isn't it true that a person without a degree who has a trail of projects that were built from hours of independent, self guided, self disciplined study is at minimum equal in terms of skill and arguable more impressive than the college grad?

Anyone can write code, the difficult bit is writing good code. Yes you can come up with some projects and put them on GitHub but who is to say the code is actually good?

I graduated University ~4 years ago in the UK, started in an entry level role and now lead a team of software engineers in a FTSE 100 company. Truthfully when I'm interviewing we will rarely have anyone in without a qualification of some kind, a personal portfolio is a welcome addition but I've seen some awful stuff in some personal GitHub accounts but we have a few within our department who didn't get a software engineering degree and either started at a small company or started in a different department and learnt what they needed to move into Technology.

As others have mentioned as well its not just about writing code, there are a number of other skills you need. I posted this list before but when interviewing I'm looking for all of these things:

• Code standards - Learn what good code is and stick to it
• Frameworks - Don't try reinventing the wheel. Cover front-end and back-end
• Databases - You need somewhere to store data. Look at query optimisation & replication
• Linux - You're going to be connecting to a Linux server using SSH at some point
• Security - Do not forget this! Know how to write secure code, stay up to date on the OWASP Top 10 and know what encryption is suitable and when to use it 
• Software Development Methodologies
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Testing - Unit & Functional
• Continuous Automation / Delivery / Deployment
• Version Control - Git
• Other Standards - e.g PHP-FIG PSRs

This doesn't require VM's. If its just a web app in a browser open a Private session to get an additional login or use a different browser. If its something you need to install and run just create multiple Windows users and use the Switch User functionality to switch between them.

Using VMs for this is massive overkill and the performance will suck.

3 hours ago, wasab said:

Assuming you still remember what you learned.

 

E.g. have you taken calculus or US history? Can you tell me what the epsilon delta definition of a limit is or what facilitated American colonial commerce and mass consumerism in the 1700s without searching the internet? Yeah.... that is education. Materials are there only termproarily to earn a passing mark.

So we should just stop teaching everything because people might forget it? 

2 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Only if you're going into the cryptography field itself. Otherwise it's not really useful to know how say AES 256 works, only that you're aware it exists.

I doubt they are teaching the intricate details of how any secure encryption method works however it's very useful to understand what cryptography is, how it works at a high level and how it should be used. Security should be a key focus of any computing course these days including cryptography and when I interview people for software engineering roles I expect them to be able to talk about it.

On 24/02/2018 at 5:22 AM, Mooshi said:

Hmm..another thing you will never use in the real world.

Unless you go into Software Engineering where understanding cryptography is very useful

Why not just compress the actual image files?

Whatever you do DO NOT lie on any credit application. You will get caught. All applications must be screened by law.

When you apply for any line of credit they will check your credit history, as you have said you have no credit so this will come up blank, you also get screened against many other lists.

Ultimately banks give out credit to people who can pay it back, with no income that is something you cannot do. Get a part time job that's paid directly into your account (no cash in hand) and start building credit.

11 hours ago, LTTfanfromSweden said:

So I can just say it’s for education? It says education is fair use in the US

Education use means using the video itself for education. How would you be able to claim a Nickelodeon TV show randomly embedded on your site is for educational purposes.

Why does it even need to be a TV Show or Film? There is plenty of non-copyrighted content available you could use. 

Yes its copyright infringement, don't do it. Just because someone else has doesn't mean you should.

No, you won't be learning much on an iPad Pro.

My best advice would be to not only learn how to write code. Cover these areas too:

• Code standards - Learn what good code is and stick to it
• Frameworks - Don't try reinventing the wheel. Cover front-end and back-end
• Databases - You need somewhere to store data. Look at query optimisation & replication
• Linux - You're going to be connecting to a Linux server using SSH at some point
• Security - Do not forget this! Know how to write secure code, stay up to date on the OWASP Top 10 and use Encryption where necessary
• Software Development Methodologies
• Software Development Life Cycyle
• Testing - Unit & Functional
• Continuous Automation / Delivery / Deployment
• Version Control - Git
• Other Standards - e.g PHP-FIG PSRs

When I'm interviewing software engineers the last thing on my mind is your ability to write code, that will be done with a test. If you can't show me you know to a decent level at least a good proportion of the points above (especially security) then it's hard to offer a position.

I've never heard of anyone with a HTML certification. Sure actual software engineering / computing qualifications from universities are always recognised by employers but if you think a 35 question test on HTML is going to get you over 60k you're mistaken.

2 hours ago, yoyDIY said:

I want to use it over a long distance (70m) but want to my homework that if I connect the two together. What specs should I look for compatability between the fibre cable and the sfp port and the sfp port and the switch?

Seriously for 70m just use CAT5e. You would literally be throwing money away to use fibre over such a sort distance especially when the switch you plan to use is no faster than CAT5e

On 27/07/2016 at 10:14 PM, oArcticWolfo said:

Because that's what most people are looking for? Run a search for those stacks on indeed.com. I just did for the LA area. LAMP had 317 listing, MEAN had 282, Tomcat 176 , OS X had 42, nginx 82. Rails won at 488, but that's different. OP wants a job. Stats say go LAMP or Rails.

Just because something is included on a job listing does not mean they have ever used it or even plan on using it, HR departments love listing the hot new trends to make the jobs seem better and attract more people.

However I do agree that doing a few small projects in PHP and teaching yourself really doesn't count as much as a real education or real work experience. @MisterWhite Why did you pick a university that doesn't teach PHP if that's what you want to do? Do they teach any web related modules?

There were no jobs where I used to live so I moved to a city with a good size software engineering sector for university. When I graduated I found a job here and stuck around

Companies supplying hardware for data centre's won't ship it with anything installed. Customers will have their own images ready to install on any hardware replacing anything that was included anyway.

4 hours ago, Mornincupofhate said:

JavaScript will just stop if another tab has been opened

This isn't true. Most browsers will place limits on what an inactive tab can do so as to not waste resources but Javascript will still be running

3 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Will the issues persist when I run the site off the actual server or is there some other compatibility issue? 

Yes. Browsers all differ slightly and will render pages differently. Using fonts or CSS that a browser or operating system doesn't have will cause it to look different.

If this is a website for work you should probably also consider all the other major browsers and older IE support down to at least IE8.

Why do you want to use a tool that is no longer maintained or well documented?

Use Selenium Webdriver instead, its the most popular and you can find loads of documentation and help online. 

On 02/06/2016 at 9:41 PM, Telebubbies said:

She says these exact words

"I cannot give you zero for your work as a computer does not know what a zero is".

If that is at all true its either a bug with the software she is using or a setting somewhere in the software. In that sense a computer can certainly understand what the value 0 is.

Seriously trying to sort your emails based on images is never going to work. Just use normal email rules to organise based on the sender, subject, keywords, etc like everyone else.