Says the person who wrote a hateful takedown of the valley, the homeless, and 'white guys.'
Also, it appears you followed a simple node tutorial and you are calling it a "platform." I'm not sure jealousy is the correct word here. If writing blog posts and following tutorials is your idea of being a developer, I'm not surprised you had a hard time in the Bay Area.
Put in the coding time, stop overselling yourself, and maybe then you will be attractive to potential employers. Blaming your failure on everyone else isn't getting you anywhere.
Wow, you really are obsessed with me son. I know, it's not every day you meet a female with the tech skills to get Arch Linux to take on a Macbook Air. It bricked my Macbook Pro (poor thing went to the highest bidder on Ebay). Anyways, try to control yourself, you're borderline stalker at this point!
I just enjoy a good shit show. Amusing that you would call me "son" and then accuse me of being sexist though. But I thought this was the imposter ms. Bell? Oh well.
Given the state of Hacker News, this might come as a surprise, but hacker is not synonymous with programmer. I developed a weekend workshop for the Harvard Innovation Lab where I lead the students through building a pinterest clone from scratch in two days. For anyone with a basic CS background (CS50) this isn't out of reach, though it's a nice way to stretch yourself into learning new things.
A blogging platform is a similar sort of project. Any novice programmer can build one given enough time and motivation. Building a polished one is an accomplishment, but it's by no means a feat of programming creativity or a demonstration of vast skill.
When I hire junior developers I'm looking for people who know at least a few different programming languages and are skilled with a number of different tools. I'm not looking for a tumblr blog or deep knowledge of git. Git can be reasonably taught in a week or two; a programming language can't.
Most startups use a few different programming languages. Mine used 3 before we were acquired. Since we were acquired we now use 6 languages on 4 OSes (Win,Lin,QNX,iOS) to provide our sensor-based solution to our clients. A real hacker is the kind of programmer who can quickly adapt to such an environment and get up to speed quickly. That's not what defines a hacker* , but that's what makes them so valuable.
* I define a hacker as someone skilled at creatively misusing available technology to solve hard problems under extreme constraints
Also, it appears you followed a simple node tutorial and you are calling it a "platform." I'm not sure jealousy is the correct word here. If writing blog posts and following tutorials is your idea of being a developer, I'm not surprised you had a hard time in the Bay Area.
Put in the coding time, stop overselling yourself, and maybe then you will be attractive to potential employers. Blaming your failure on everyone else isn't getting you anywhere.