Good article. I've been coding circles around and teaching Stanford CS undergrad and graduate students for years. Feels good since I'm self taught. I tell th

Good article. I've been coding circles around and teaching Stanford CS undergrad and graduate students for years. Feels good since I'm self taught. I tell them I'm a 'street coder'. They're valuable to me ( the CS students ) because they help me put words to CS concepts I have built in my own mind from experience. Nothing frustrates me more than the scenario outlined in the article. The business folks can and will always say whatever they want that suits the business. That's their thing. As the leader of the team and domain expert, you should be able to hire whom you deem most qualified. And they biz folks can make up whatever BS they want as long as you're delivering. That said, I am self-employed in SF. So I don't particularly have to worry about managers. Except for convincing them to hire me, without the fancy degree. Fortunately I think it filters out a lot of the pretentious companies I would not be happy to work with.