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Thanks. I was very much in need of this, especially with so many companies expecting React expertise of new hires these days.

Thanks. Just reached out to you on LinkedIn.

The Home Work podcast is a very useful resource for people working from home, including freelancers: http://5by5.tv/homework. Been listening to it for over a year now.

You probably haven't heard it from them because complaining about such is so often labeled as "whining" and met with replies of "get a thicker skin." Even if you, specifically, are a genuinely sympathetic ear, they've likely been burned too often to open up yet again.

I'm a Ruby-loving web developer in NY. Huge TDD/BDD proponent. Programming language polyglot. Gamer/fiction writer. Eager to lead a team through example.

Location: New York, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, JavaScript (jQuery, Node.js, CoffeeScript, Knockout), HTML/CSS (Sass, Boostrap), MySQL/Postgres, TDD/BDD

Also experienced in: Python, PHP, Java, C#

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: hire at thirdtruck org

GitHub: https://github.com/thirdtruck

Primarily interested in contract work, but open to part- or full-time. A big proponent of refactoring, in case you have a code base in need of re-engineering.

Exactly my same experience.

How much Japanese did you know going in? I took a couple years in it back in undergrad, but it's all rusted away from a lack of practice.

Are you hiring? While I'm hunting for tech work in NY even now, but have had a frustrating enough experience that I'm open to just tackling the problem directly.

> Don't manage complexity. Extract simplicity.

I can't second this enough. This is why it's so important to throw away your prototype code, sometimes, instead of trying to fix it. It's also the big value-add of TDD: Well written tests make that extracted simplicity explicit.

On top of that: The second company presumably still has domain-specific training of its own to perform, and will have to un-train the hire in other ways. Makes more sense to just pick up someone new.

Exactly. Sometimes the market "decides" that you're going to have to stop under-paying your employees.

> if a business invests $20k in training and $80k in salary, there is nothing stopping another employer from offering $90k in salary after training is complete.

And nothing stops the first business from raising the employee's pay to $91k. Why should they expect to keep paying the same salary to someone they've made more valuable? They already amortized the costs of training over the value added by the employee in the first year, right?

And then -- and this is important -- actually follow through on allowing and encouraging refactoring, as indicated in the interviews, instead of insisting on "features first, features fast" in practice.

How do you know which of the two managers is lying? (Could be both.)

This is why, even as a very indie Kickstarter creator myself, I don't begrudge the big studio's use of Kickstarter this way.

I'd rather see a shift toward creators getting paid for the work they do, which they put in one way or another, and away from absolute dependence on the market for post-hoc validation. Not a 100% shift ("real artists ship"), but toward an economic model that doesn't leave creators so beholden to such narrow sources of capital as a single publisher.

Found one job through it so far.

Seconding underdog.io. They helped me find my last job.

Ignoring that the black doctor (and his/her children, and their children) may have only been able to escape the cycle of poverty and its innumerable harms to health because of AA.

Isn't there a pending lawsuit even now about Asian engineers being categorically passed over for management promotions in favor of their white peers?

Have ... have you missed all the recent news of frats being sanctioned and branches even being closed down for racist behavior?

There was one frat in the south that was paying an old black man just to pick cotton. Seriously!

Exactly. "Women are shorter than men on average," but that doesn't make a 7'2" woman any shorter in absolute terms.

There's that explicit pipeline for marginalized people. However, there's long been a much more powerful implicit pipeline in the form of unconscious biases, old boys' clubs, and the like.

I think they should be (especially as a polyglot myself), but there's also a lot of pressure to super specialize, and not just from employers. Having a network of like-minded developers is an invaluable psychological and career resource.

There's nothing "iconoclastically freethinking" about espousing centuries-old, dehumanizing views accepted uncritically by a regional majority.

SEEKING WORK - New York, NY or Remote

I'm a Ruby- and JavaScript-loving web developer in NY. Huge TDD/BDD proponent. Programming language polyglot (Python, PHP, Perl, C#, Java). Gamer/fiction writer on the side.

Buzzwords: Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, HTML, CSS, Sass, Bootstrap, Rails.

GitHub: https://github.com/thirdtruck

Work example: http://rubyai.org

Contact: hire at thirdtruck org

Location: New York, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, JavaScript (jQuery, Node.js, CoffeeScript, Knockout), HTML/CSS (Sass, Boostrap), Python, PHP, Java, C#, MySQL, TDD/BDD

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: hire at thirdtruck org

GitHub: https://github.com/thirdtruck

Primarily interested in contract work, but open to part- or full-time. A big proponent of refactoring, in case you have a code base in need of re-engineering.

And even then, programmers of Asian descent apparently get sidelined into the purely technical work, to the exclusion of managerial or the like.

EDIT: s/those/then/.

We certainly haven't run out of programmers.

It does seem like we've run low on companies willing to invest the time and money in their employees in a way that would create the "10x programmers" that they all want, as opposed to horse-trading the relative few that already exist.

It's more about having less non-assholes filtered out prematurely by biased skill tests and evaluations.

> That said, my last several jobs I landed, I went in blue jeans and conference swag (startup tshirts).

That's the implicit dress code. It's just hard to notice because it's converged on standard male developer attire.

Conversely, a female interviewee is caught in the paradox of (a) appearing "too informal" by social standards for feminine attire if she dresses the way described above, or (b) appearing "too formal" if she does conform to social expectations for her gender. Never mind that women have an inordinately hard time finding non-unisex conference swag in their sizes in the first place.