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One more thing: you also have the odd combination of "product design" + "sounding-mostly-like-BACKEND tech experience", but people would expect "product design"

by nnq 10y ago

One more thing: you also have the odd combination of "product design" + "sounding-mostly-like-BACKEND tech experience", but people would expect "product design" + "frontend" with nicely sounding keywords Angular 2 or React or Polymer etc. I guess... I don't have a solution for this because I have a similar problematic set of skills (product design + backend + entrepreneur-ish + desire to jump more towards machine learning...). I'm curios how you end up solving the issue of selling this combination of skills, so please let me know how it goes ;)

gkya 10y ago
Recently there was an interesting article here with a title like 'The Bipolar Programmer' where a stereotype about 'smart but lazy' STEM students; in that article I fiund nearly a definition of myself, and I think you and the OP may find that this is true for you two too. I, too, am curious for many areas of computing and art, and as a result sparsely knowledgeable about most of them, but lack profound proficiency in all of them. I believe (and daresay) that we make a category which is hard to recruit in this sector. I've lost the hope that I'll be able to fit in as a programmer-for-hire and believe that the only place for me here is as an entrepreneur-hacker and open-source side-projects person. I've actually drifted so away from programming as a profession that at the moment am studying philology at uni.
- Jarwain 10y ago
  Are you referring to http://www.shenlanguage.org/lambdassociates/htdocs/blog/bipolar.htm http://www.shenlanguage.org/lambdassociates/htdocs/blog/bipo... or http://mhprompt.org/2016/09/29/on-being-bipolar-programmer.html http://mhprompt.org/2016/09/29/on-being-bipolar-programmer.h... ?
oliv__ 10y ago
That's the thing. I much prefer backend development to frontend. Imo, the frontend world is kind of all over the place right now and most of the time those frameworks are overkill for simple projects.

by nnq 10y ago

gkya 10y ago

Recently there was an interesting article here with a title like 'The Bipolar Programmer' where a stereotype about 'smart but lazy' STEM students; in that article I fiund nearly a definition of myself, and I think you and the OP may find that this is true for you two too. I, too, am curious for many areas of computing and art, and as a result sparsely knowledgeable about most of them, but lack profound proficiency in all of them. I believe (and daresay) that we make a category which is hard to recruit in this sector. I've lost the hope that I'll be able to fit in as a programmer-for-hire and believe that the only place for me here is as an entrepreneur-hacker and open-source side-projects person. I've actually drifted so away from programming as a profession that at the moment am studying philology at uni.

Jarwain 10y ago
Are you referring to http://www.shenlanguage.org/lambdassociates/htdocs/blog/bipolar.htm http://www.shenlanguage.org/lambdassociates/htdocs/blog/bipo... or http://mhprompt.org/2016/09/29/on-being-bipolar-programmer.html http://mhprompt.org/2016/09/29/on-being-bipolar-programmer.h... ?

oliv__ 10y ago

That's the thing. I much prefer backend development to frontend. Imo, the frontend world is kind of all over the place right now and most of the time those frameworks are overkill for simple projects.