Thanks for the invite.
I'm biased; I don't have a degree. But business is business and the success of a company is almost directly proportional to it's employees.
I'm obviously completely accepting of someone without a degree, but that doesn't mean a candidate should be hired with 0 qualifications. If the person has some work to show be it past jobs, freelance, etc... and their skills are in alignment with what I need / am looking for - hire.
If their skills are out of alignment, but during the interview they appear to be willing to learn; learn quickly and are motivated - hire. No problem teaching or letting them learn new things to grow their career.
If their self taught and they have 1 line on their resume regarding programming (and everything else not related to programming) - no hire.
Build, build, build! So many people, especially the self taught, don't know what to build or are lazy or whatever. I'd rather see a dozen "me too" apps on their resume then 1 original idea. I'd rather see someone with thousands of lines of good and bad code then a dozen lines of perfect code. Programming is not perfect. There is no exact science. We figure this out as we go and hope for the best. I want someone that can think on their own and solve problems; the language doesn't matter, languages can be taught. If I throw you an idea for a feature, can you tell me how you'd build it without coming here or Google? Yes? Hire. We'll figure out the language part of it as we go.