[sillysaurus3]

just starting out, taking those early baby steps. When we were first scribbling out our first programs, however naive or full of bugs or flaws, we didn't immediately go push it in the faces of millions of strangers across the world (ala Show HN, GitHub, blogs, etc), a good portion of whom would be professionals alot further along, and say "omg look at this isn't it amazing I'm a hacker now please hire me k thx"

No one was asking for anyone to hire anyone. I have no idea why you're saying this or belittling people's work.

If you can't be supportive, don't say anything unless you have strong reason to say it. Doesn't matter how far along the work is or how bad it is. If everyone followed this, the world would be a better place than it is, particularly the internet.

The lack of support is exactly what causes people to switch careers, because they get the impression everybody in the field is a flamer.