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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><a href="http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/15/4226432/computer-scientist-programs-ai-to-beat-super-mario-other-nes-games">http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/15/4226432/computer-scientist-programs-ai-to-beat-super-mario-other-nes-games</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> chat-bounces@lists.lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces@lists.lrug.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Myhrberg<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 April 2013 17:49<br><b>To:</b> Adam Carlile<br><b>Cc:</b> Alex Heeton; <chat@lists.lrug.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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 :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>-jimeh</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p><span style='color:#A0A0A8'>On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 17:31, Adam Carlile wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Degrees often indicate that you have the capability to learn a subject, not that you're necessarily proficient at it.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 17 Apr 2013, at 17:28, Alex Heeton <<a href="mailto:alex@heeton.me">alex@heeton.me</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Developer should ideally be a computer science grad from a red brick/<br>Oxbridge uni.<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>~Alex<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Chat mailing list<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>