Both references - the article on the Irgun and that of Deir Yassin - are sterling examples of the fallibility that Wikipdia engenders. Both articles are either carefully crafted to accuse without actually doing so outright ("the Irgun shot at an Arab", "Arabs were shot as well", "throwing explosives at an Arab bus" - who exactly these Arabs were is not mentioned, because if they turned out to be known troublemakers or murderers, the story would be far less interesting). Furthermore, the story of Deir Yassin is not the massacre you imagine it to be, as even a brief perusal of the fine article makes clear. Deir Yassin, like the non-killing of Muhammad AlDura and the purported deaths of 500 civilians in Jenin, is just one of those propaganda stories that Arabs tout to demonize Jews and Israelis in particular, in the full knowledge that the latent anti-Semitism that is rife in the West will rise to the occasion and cheerfully ignore the facts. "...terrorist territory, born of violence" - using this logic, the survivors of Sobibor were terrorists, too.

I was hired on more than one occasion on the strength of being self-taught, over degree-qualified competition. Having worked with several graduates, I fail to see what they were taught, anyway. None of them were able to code commercially, and quite frankly should have gone into something else. When it comes to programming, you either have it or you don't.

Getting hired - well, start a project and flash tme your code. That's what I did, and the resultsw were impressive.