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> These usually are the worst "programmers", in my experience. And I was one as I didn't go to CS school and was mostly self-taught. Lacking the basics of CS, you are just a code monkey.

That's the type of condescending, discriminatory bias that having a degree affords, I guess.



The GP just said he doesn’t have a degree.


They used was several times, past tense, indicating they potentially do have a degree now; if not, their prose sounded snobbish to me either way, hence my comment.




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