mattmurdog

Spot on! Couldn't have agreed more. I'm currently hiring JS dev and 99% of them are self proclaimed "experts" 10 out of 10 but they barely scratch the surface with the potential of JS.

Couldn't have agreed more. Relevance is the key.

Agile won't fix your products because you can't fix clueless, bumbling, incompetent engineers. I've done the whole agile thing in small teams of 5 and gotten more done than working with 100 offshore developers who find excuse to complain about everything every chance they get. Agile doesn't fix the pride you have in the work that you do. That's the primary motivation for good work. Knowing that your work matters and you're not just there to collect a pay check and check out as soon as possible.

Wordpress single handedly provided jobs for thousands of web developers. It's a fantastic CMS and no one has built a better one the same way no one has "tried" to rebuilt a "better" Google or Facebook.

This is extremely valid.

The Hyperloop would be a nightmare to inspect in a natural disaster. I know how difficult it is now to check on trains now, can't imagine this being fun.

I would look into trying to get your criminal past expunged. Talk to some lawyers, figure it out. My ex-roommate was able to get his wiped, although it wasn't a felony sex offense case.

Work hard to get a new job, even if it's a crappy one. This will be the key to help you turn your life around. I know it did for me. I struggled during my early late 20s too, and when I turned 30 it felt overwhelming... like what have I been doing with my life? But when I put my head down and started to work hard.

Career became my main focus in my 30s and while I am much older now, I can say without doubt, everything got better. I was able to not worry about money, date more, make more friends, indulge in personal interests, etc.

Use this time living at home to save, take any job related to your interest. Keep looking for better opportunities. Save more money. Get that job. Get that girl. Get your life turned around mentally and emotionally. Don't dwell on the past. Good luck!

Someone in CA would need to charge much more than someone in TX. Same skill sets, same gusto. Guess who gets the job? Good article, but if only life was that easy.

HTML is like Powerpoint? Wow, if only it was that easy. It's more like Excel IMO if we really want to make such an asinine comparison.

Not rich, but well off. Upper middle class.

Honestly, i'd go beg for your old job back especially if you were making six figures. Also Ruby is different than Java, very different. A Ruby bootcamp will not and has not prepared you to become a full-time developer. Lastly, no company worth a damn would make someone work for free for 4 months and then pay them 55k. We pay our interns that much if not more and they don't even know what MVC or OOP is.

When I ran a start up, I did it because I had other sources of income. There were even times I took on a second job just so I could fund my own start up. If you haven't had a salary for the last 4 months maybe it's time to consider getting a job. This is no longer a start up, it's a hobby. If you still believe in it, don't quit. Otherwise sell your share to your rich partner who apparently isn't phased by this at all.

If a guy came in for a job interview wearing shorts, sunglasses and Axe body spray he probably wouldn't get the job either.

This is also for an internship, act professionally, act like a grown up, act like this matters. Clearly she didn't and is now complaining online and bad mouthing a company with good hiring practices.

Her gender has nothing to do with this. The company being all male has nothing to do with this.

Her being unprofessional and everyone else being more professional regardless of gender does.

Isn't that sort of what they said about IE10 and 11? I still can't run them without them crashing from time to time.

It's very different than what it's like here that's for sure. You're expected to work longer hours for little(r) pay. It's a cultural thing to slave and slave away and to be happy that you have a job and you're contributing to a greater good.

If I had a dollar for every "client" that asked to meet me at Starbucks and sign an NDA then I'd be a millionaire.

I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for video games. Eventually got bored of playing games and decided to make my own.

This can be resolved very easily with inspectors or writing educated console logs.

This is absolutely correct. People who hate JS can't properly code JS. It's a fluid language that can be done in several ways and unless someone understands it fluently they will merely think it's "not a real" language.

I had long graduated by the time Occupy started. But yes, it just wasn't worth it.

Only one god damn hill, but that was another trip all the way across another god damn town when I needed to go buy groceries ;P

I still remember the day my father pulled me aside and told me in secret (my mom would have freaked out) that we couldn't really afford college. He recommended that I stayed close to home and to go to a local school, which I did for 4+ years with an average of four hours a day worth of commuting. Occasionally, I also had a part time job that added almost two more extra hours of commuting because it took me to another side of the town and I had to walk half a mile to get to work after getting off the bus.

Because it should never have been used in the first place.

That's sort of the Catch-22. A guy simply can't ask a girl he likes out. A girl who's unqualified feels slighted because a guy is interested in her. What has this world come to?

Asians from poor neighborhoods still are because they're Asian. And if they are male, then they are even more discriminated against than Asian women who are both "female" and "Asian".

Basically Asian in general regardless if you're from overseas or from NY, you're getting shafted. And if you're male... good luck, you better have a 5.0 GPA and be the captain of the football team to get in any where.

Something similar happened to me years ago. I later learned the hiring manager had left. But when they contacted me, I had already moved on.

You sound a lot like programmers I constantly run in to who claim to have 10+ years of experience and rate themselves a 10 out of 10 on everything known to man. But yet can't land a full time job and just coast from freelance to freelance work and take on projects that my 8 year old nephew and/or a chimp could have done/automated. Like some of the replies here, these guys come off super arrogant and are just not personalable. These are all major red flags. Not to mention they're just clever at being deceptive, not only to potential employers but also themselves. Because when pressed in technical interviews or tests they fold. They fold hard.

If you really want to break in, I would be honest with what you can do. There's no shame in being self taught. Use that trait as a strength to show your capability and interest to learn new things. That you're autonomous and motivated. Talk about how you were able to learn new things or how you were the driving force behind something. Don't be afraid to take a smaller role and listen to others. Your coworkers are assets not ladders for you to climb over. And most importantly, work with smarter people. Soon enough you'll learn that you're actually not that talented... or maybe you really are. Good luck.

It's negative when people start to pigeonhole you and tell you you can't do certain things because you're not suppose to know how.

I get this a lot. I have a Masters and several minors in nothing but Liberal Arts. But I work in CS at a fairly high level. It just blows people mind who have a hard time seeing how they can possibly ever relate to one another. To me they're all the same. I'm drawn and willing to learn whatever that interests me. If anything, I've always felt that I can learn CS on my own (which I did) but I wouldn't be able to learn Liberal Arts stuff if I wasn't exposed to it in a classroom environment.

Uh no they don't. Developers do.