When I am looking at hiring someone (and I have a history degree, not a CS one), I never ask about their degree. Why? Because I have rarely found that a CS degree really correlates either way with coding quality.
What I focus on instead is past accomplishments. I ask for work samples, questions about what you've done in the past, etc. If you have done open source development even better. Please send me your contributions and I will review them!
I have met excellent developers who had CS degrees and excellent developers who didn't.
This being said... The article I think illustrates the kind of person who needs an attitude adjustment before starting a company. His overall negativity means he will need to be able to think positively about his ideas before he can even start to think about making them work in the real world. It's hard enough to get such a software project going to a level of self-sustainability when you believe in it. When you think it all sucks it can be very hard.
That's because a CS degree has nothing to do with coding. I'm not sure where people got this idea that a CS degree is nothing more than 4 years of vocational programming.
What I focus on instead is past accomplishments. I ask for work samples, questions about what you've done in the past, etc. If you have done open source development even better. Please send me your contributions and I will review them!
I have met excellent developers who had CS degrees and excellent developers who didn't.
This being said... The article I think illustrates the kind of person who needs an attitude adjustment before starting a company. His overall negativity means he will need to be able to think positively about his ideas before he can even start to think about making them work in the real world. It's hard enough to get such a software project going to a level of self-sustainability when you believe in it. When you think it all sucks it can be very hard.