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As data points go: male developer, serious systems programming background, 1 semester of college.

Maciej Ceglowski is, I think, even worse off than I am. He went to art school. Now he controls the Internet from his perch atop Pinboard.



I went to a liberal arts college and got so well-rounded I can't stop rolling.


I've worked in this industry for a long time, and while I have worked with fantastic self-taught developers from non-tech degrees, it seems to me that they're the exception rather than the rule. I would not hesitate hiring someone without a tech degree based on their experience, but they seem fairly uncommon. Most of the developers I've worked with seem to come from CS/EE backgrounds.


Good developers are all exceptions, not the rule. The majority of CS grads are not in fact effective programmers.




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