[LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)

[Louis Goff-Beardsleey]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/15/4226432/computer-scientist-programs-ai-to-beat-super-mario-other-nes-games

 

Saw this guy this morning and was thinking if he would be functional outside of academia. Then saw this thread syncronisticly appear. It’s funny how each day seems to have a theme.

 

From: chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On Behalf Of Jim Myhrberg
Sent: 17 April 2013 17:49
To: Adam Carlile
Cc: Alex Heeton; <chat at lists.lrug.org>
Subject: Re: [LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)

 

I totally agree. Personally I don't have any degree, or even officially finished primary school. But that's got nothing to do with the knowledge and skills that I actually posses.

 

As for finding work, code examples, open source projects on github and talking geekshit to an interviewer/developer about your work has always been more than enough for me to get a job :)

 

 

-jimeh

 

On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 17:31, Adam Carlile wrote:

Precisely Alex, I've often thought about what my degree says about me, however I have learnt that employers are more concerned with the contents of my Github account. 

 

Degrees often indicate that you have the capability to learn a subject, not that you're necessarily proficient at it.

 

On 17 Apr 2013, at 17:28, Alex Heeton <alex at heeton.me <mailto:alex at heeton.me> >

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Developer should ideally be a computer science grad from a red brick/
Oxbridge uni.

 

I can also say that of all the developers, CTOs and computer scientists I know, degrees or where they got them has little relevance to their skills. 

 

I have a computer science degree from a "red brick uni", and it's a passing note in my CV; never spoken of again. Certainly not what defines me. 

 

 

~Alex

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