[hivhacks]

oh yeah and ignore all the stupid advice to "start a blog" and "journal your development" etc garbage from the social-hacker-marketing-idiots that infect HN like a plague spreading their opinionated FUD everywhere.

Unless your a skilled and seasoned dev this can only hurt you. Seriously, I speak from experience as someone who has looked through many resumes and portfolios.

For better or worse you chose the CS path, not a diploma and not a code.joke.org. You are on the right path, where as most jobs didn't ask for a CS degree before most do now. The landscape is LITTERED with hacks and posers who all seem to have amazing resumes full of amazing synergy, but it's all poop. People will tell you your dumb for taking 4-5 years to get a legit degree and make no mistake, the people saying that have none of their own...

[switch007]

> Unless your a skilled and seasoned dev this can only hurt you. Seriously, I speak from experience as someone who has looked through many resumes and portfolios.

Given your experience, could you explain the reasons for it only being damaging?