[AccessD] Marketing your coding skills

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Apr 11 01:35:33 CDT 2013


The only mistake is not living in Silicon Valley, where are third rate programmer can pass himself off as a rock star programmer so long as he can roll all the fancy hip tech terms off his tongue and looks cool like a hipster.

- Hans


On 2013-04-10, at 6:00 PM, Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I know why I'm not getting rich.  Here's a brief description of a guy
> who was so busy as a programmer that he hired an agent:
> 
> "Guvench has an eyebrow ring and rolls to our interview in a funky hat.
> He’s a Harvard graduate who did a thesis on his study of monkey
> vocalizations and the hunt for precursors to human language. Later he got
> into coding and playing in bands."
> 
> All I did was get a degree in Math and take all the computer science
> courses I could find.  Silly me..
> Full article:
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-10/silicon-valley-goes-hollywood-top-coders-can-now-get-agents
> 
> Doug
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