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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostAre you actually allowed within 500 metres of a school, you humourless ?
Now be a good chap and just fck off and die quietly somewhere.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostThe Sudoku test:
If you like doing sudokus (and mostly get them right) you'll make a great coder.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostAnd if you like doing Killer Sudoku, then you'll make a great software architect.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post#1 technology moves so fast, it's daft to focus upon technology. By the time you get the experience, it will be redundant
#2 Therefore concentrate on transferrable skills. Maths, logic, Business skills
#3 or concentrate on associated functions that are indespensible, law, accountancy etc
#4 suss out where the upper sixth girlies hang out...
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostAnd if you like doing Killer Sudoku, then you'll make a great software architect."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostA cousin of mine is faculty head of ICT for a secondary school and she'd like me to talk to the higher computing class about the IT industry. What jobs and skills are required, what are the prospects (), what direction they should be heading in etc.
Personally id suggest them to forget IT and focus on manual skilled work, such as electrician, plumber, things like that. Skills that will always be needed, can be paid in cash, cant be offshored and dont required learning the latest bulltulip from microsoft that is several times slower than the previous bulltulip and will be dropped in a years time anyway for the next round of even slower bulltulip.
That does sound quite bitter doesnt it, and I have earned a good living in IT and an excellent living contracting.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
The Sudoku test:
If you like doing sudokus (and mostly get them right) you'll make a great coder.
I've always found sudoku deathly boring, and I'm not a bad coder (although no doubt everyone thinks they aren't)Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostBut isn't coding more about patterns than arithmetic?
I've always found sudoku deathly boring, and I'm not a bad coder (although no doubt everyone thinks they aren't)
I think the sort of person who enjoys logic puzzles like sudoku is likely to be the sort of person who enjoys coding.
As with most sweeping generalisations, there will be many, many exceptions!Comment
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