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It is a real exam taken in a certification center, where you’re sitting in front of a computer for a few hours, without any books or Internet access, answering questions. Rather humiliating activity for a respected software developer? Indeed. And there is a high probability of failure, which is also rather embarrassing.
It is a very good sign, if you managed to go through this. If you’ve done it a few times, even better.
In Silicon Valley, certifications are often considered a negative signal on any resume. It may be an equally bullshit heuristic, but you probably rely on artificial exam results if you don’t have products or connections to support your credentials.
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This is equally true outside the valley. Rightly or wrongly, this is literally the first time I’ve seen anyone suggest that your average developer cert is worth the paper it’s printed on.
Hm, I don’t agree. Everyone knows many of Microsofts “Certifications” are online-courses where they make sure you know the names of their products to sell. But people also know that Percona sells top-notch certifications and courses for mysql. At least where I usually work, people know the subtle differences.
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I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying that here, at least, a couple of thousand miles from the Valley, any cert listed on a resume is greeted with “lol this person puts certs on their resume”.
As you say, vendor quality probably does vary and there probably is such a thing as useful certs, but the MS*C and “Certified PHP Guru!” cert mills et al did so much to hurt the perception of certs over the last couple of decades that I think there’s a widespread perception that they’re a negative signal. For that reason, even if you’ve paid for and earned an extremely useful cert you’re probably better off leaving the thing off and listing real accomplishments the knowledge you gained enabled you to achieve, because most people can’t be assed to dig through the mountain of garbage cert vendors to figure out if any of them are supposed to be any good.
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In Silicon Valley, certifications are often considered a negative signal on any resume. It may be an equally bullshit heuristic, but you probably rely on artificial exam results if you don’t have products or connections to support your credentials.
TBQH, I’d prefer a 2-days postgres course + certification over listening to 32 conf talks (2 * 8 * 30 minutes) about it anytime, because it can cover the whole product well.
And if you are taking a 2-3 days course, why not pass a test and get certified?
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Chording is it really bad for your hands, and emacs pinky is no joke. Richard Stallman has personally crippled thousands of people, and we should all hold him responsible for the menace he is.
Obviously everyone can have their own configurations, but most people I know keep the default settings on where the metakey is positioned.
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Let’s save some blame for the idiots who moved the ctrl key to the hardest-to-reach position on the keyboard, shall we?
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It’s especially dangerous in the modern era, where we have precedent for innocuous items and actions being used as “evidence” for a crime. Loose leaf tea and shopping at hydroponic garden stores; kitchen scales and Ziploc bags. If creating software of any sort is a crime, them eventually the innocent tools associated with creating that software will be used as justification for police raids and criminal charges.
If a physical item can ONLY be used for a crime, it is a crime to sell it. That’s why head shops insist a lot of glassware is for “juice cooling” or something along those lines. Why should software be any different?
A key logger doesn’t have to be used for a crime though.
There are very few things that legitimately meet that description. Sure, you can turn anything into an object that can only be used for crime by outlawing the object, regardless of how it’s used, but if you discount that kind of silliness it’s hard to imagine how a mere physical object could have the power to frustrate all intentions to use it in a good way. A piece of software is more likely to qualify for such an honor, but I still don’t believe in it.