Hacker News Reader

I agree. I actually approach my learning in a very similar way. Thus I show value by my portfolio of apps (http://garyyauchan.com/) with ideation and designs, and codes I build through passionate googling.

Granted, the other view is that you need to know the "foundation" and the "why" in order to solve problems more efficiently.

View on HN

extremely impressive portfolio I wish I had that level of output but I simply don't, as I have tendency to work on one hard problem for years.

Half the stuff they ask in interview is did you work this open source software and that, did you know this framework has X feature, can you tell me what it is...I'm like all of this I can google and tell you there's simply no difference, it's a matter when I googled it, but the other view is that they want someone with 5 years of angularjs and mongodb experience in the hopes of finding a multi-year veteran and expert in the myriad of brand new frameworks and technologies that are barely mature.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com