mogifax

Can you write a little FAQ for Subway patrons to convince owners in their area to accept bitcoin? Would love a little list of hardware, software, which accounts to create with which companies, etc.

Thanks -- just a few to start ...

1. Which POS app do you need on the Android tablet?
2. Do you need to set up any merchant accounts, get verified, etc?
3. Does BTC/USD conversion happen on the spot?
4. How do you hook up the receipt printer?
5. What does the business need to know for tax implications?

CS major

Waste of time and money. After being in IT since the 90s, I feel like flying around campuses in a dirigible and yelling "Don't take CS! Don't take CS!"

I've worked for two small shops, a start-up, the government (briefly), a Fortune 50 company (10 years), and now I am at a large regional consulting firm; I'm 33. At no point did anyone ask for a degree of any kind. Like, it wasn't even a factor.

Look at a typical CS course schedule. If I wanted to pad the hours in an effort to make it look like my scam is actually legit, this is exactly what I would put together. lol "Software Engineering I" is a junior-level course, and it teaches "construction of test data" and "techniques to document systems"? The rest of that monkey shit list includes humanities and social science electives, writing workshops, and ethics. Jesus, it's like a long mandatory quarterly compliance training session from hell, times four.

It's a scam, it's all a scam. It doesn't teach you to become a good coder because it's not a coding degree, and it doesn't show you how to be a good BA, BSA, PM, or a data architect because that would be too specialized.

If I had to do it all over again, I would just (1) start writing code in the language of my choice attempting to create things that I thought were cool (2) learn SQL (3) start a blog and just write write write about something I liked. I work with people who within 12 months of googling at night while kids were away learned Objective-C and now drive Teslas. Our parts distributor has a HS diploma only -- she just mentioned that she recently cracked $100k a year, which puts her on par with her financial analyst husband with a master's. There's also a band of traveling PMs and BAs who easily make $50/hr through a temp agency.

The only two things that matter in IT today are (1) skills and (2) not being an asshole.