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Re:Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK on GitHub by cpayne on Saturday April 18, 2015 @07:53PM (#9401532)
A "Developer" today is very different to a developer 7 years ago [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer].

I started as a software developer in the 90's. Back then, if you didn't have a degree or similar it was considered strange.

These days, if you have a degree (and nothing else - no github / stackoverflow / portfolio etc) then THAT is strange

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Re:Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK on GitHub by yoklov on Sunday April 19, 2015 @10:32AM (#9403250)
Strange, I wasn't working that long ago, but most of what I've heard from people who have is that not having a degree was very common.

This might be a game industry vs rest of software engr thing though.

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