rlty_chck

Every time I see claims like this, I instinctively click on the user's profile and try to verify if their story checks out.

>I played around a lot with code when I was younger. I built my first site when I was 13 and had a good handle on Javascript back when jQuery was still a pipe dream.

>Started with the Codecademy Ruby track which was pretty easy. Working through RailsTutorial right now.

posted on April 15, 2015, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382537

>I've been freelancing since I was 17. I've dabbled in every kind of online trade imaginable, from domain names to crypto. I've built and sold multiple websites. I also built and sold a small agency.

>I can do some marketing, some coding, some design, some sales, but I'm not particularly good at any of those in isolation.

posted on Jan 20, 2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459482

So I don't really understand where this claim of only "6 months of coding experience" is coming from, when you clearly have been coding on and off for multiple decades.