Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Years

Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by watwut on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:38PM (#13908083)

People who just learned a bit of JavaScript or whatever programming in library wont be able to produce impressive enough contribution to popular open source. They are unlikely to pass technical interview, whiteboard or not, in a company that does them. They literally need company ok with hiring juniors and mentoring them.

Ok, it is possible to fake your way to position if you can project passion and throw around buzz words, but that requires hipster cultural adaptation - not rural one.

Most likely thou, they will simply learn wrong things. It is perfectly possible to learn by yourself and by reading of internet, but it requires a lot of time on the internet. It wont happen in three months (unless they are highly charismatic ).

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Re:Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Y... by im_down_w_otp on Sunday March 19, 2017 @04:03PM (#13909306)

I know several people who got full-time gigs at companies you would definitely have heard of with almost no prior professional software experience based nearly entirely on the fact they went about fixing bugs in commercially supported open source projects. Some hired by the vendor itself. Others hired by people reliant on those projects.

Demonstrating initiative, conscientiousness, and acumen are apparently sought after traits.

Some in Python, some in Ruby, some in Javascript. What they all had in common is that they'd all been working food or coffee service up to that point, not programming professionally.

I'm not entirely sure where the 3 month time limit came from that you added?

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