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A comment on Ask HN: Do I need to go to college?.

Re:Ask HN: Do I need to go to college? by wahjah on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:05PM (#6200295)
You should go to schoool. It may sound dumb, but it's a hiring filter at lots of established companies and you'll be defending not having a degree for the rest of your career if you don't.

It doesn't take that much effort to skate through on B-C's, and you can keep doing professional dev on the side.

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Re:Ask HN: Do I need to go to college? by advicethrowaway on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:15PM (#6200366)
>it's a hiring filter at lots of established companies and you'll be defending not having a degree for the rest of your career if you don

I agree, it's essentially putting a handicap on myself for the rest of my life.

Do you think four years of full time experience and networking wouldn't outweigh a degree?

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