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And the problem of interviewing in the software industry is the problem of interviewing in the finance industry. Forget being successful (as defined in already having the money to live a life long without begging for food to some corporate masters). 99.9999% of the guys competing for a position...

They do the same thing, only first is written in English and the other one in Chinese. I already know English and don't know and don't care about Chinese, but problem is not what I care but what employers ask for. And there are enough "brilliant imbeciles" (ADHD geeks) who will not only embrace...

Gotta clarify one thing. I have a job as software, been doing it for 20 years already and likely will (have to) do it for the rest of my life. So "success" with whatever extra-job work I do doesn't mean I necessarily have to strike it rich, although I wouldn't mind it, but to keep my skills...

Never said makes everybody rich. I view selling software like any other business like selling coffee or food or entertainment. Does buying a coffee makes you richer? On the contrary and yet you buy it. Will new coffee shops never be opened on street corners just because there are already coffee...

I already did, a lot. There are 100 million projects on GitHub though, one of them is mine. I've also written 10s of thousands of line of proprietary code for my own project(s), not on GitHub. But "doing it" in business has a perverse meaning entirely different from what it means in plain...

>> Chyu, jokertrader Sorry, too juniors. I'm gonna make a billion dollars on the retail Nova market.

So I'm a 40+ years old software developer with an idea to break it rich in a field stuffed by ruthless competitors. Take a Byte magazine from 1985 when things "were easier" and you'll see what I mean. It was never easy but it was always crowds and exceptions. By the very definition of breaking...

Not in the mood but by first look seems Java. Is it Java?

Pretty spot on, Fan27, you may still have a future in the industry at least for the time being :) Unfortunately for now I'm still making a buck almost solely as #1. Aiming for #3 though, with my trading ideas ;)

If you go that route, you might have missed the part of my post where I made clear that THE MOMENT YOU MISS A QUESTION IN THE 5-STAGES LONG, 3-HOURS PER STAGE WITH MULTIPLE TEAMS INTERVIEW PROCESS, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOOR WITHOUT SECOND THOUGHT.

I tried lobste.rs only to find: - It's an echo chamber of the echo chamber that's HN as far as original ideas go - Not surprisingly, they're even more dummkopf nazis than the dummkopf nazis on HN. At least on HN anyone can post and with some luck (dummkopf nazi on the other side of the length...

Good point, never even thought about it. Like Gaussian, I don't plan to be still begging for bread on a monthly basis at 50. But like Gaussian, I'm 15 years short of the threshold you mentioned. And if and when I'll cross it, it's gonna be ME calling the shots. Which reminds me of another...

.. and that's OK, as long they get integrated in the surviving wave. I've a Serbian friend who thinks equally about his native language. Don't get me wrong, native languages are still important in our lifetime, but I'd rather learn one for good then move on to better things than keep chasing my...

Maybe the only reason I still work with / like C++ after seeing much much better is this old joke you probably haven't heard. A middle-aged mildly successful Romanian guy judging from the Tesla he descended from near Amsterdam's Red District goes to a known very pricey house, precisely because...

I hate C++ with my guts and do my personal projects in Java (and some scripting in Perl / Python) but you're right. It's C++ that puts a daily bread on my table. Still hate it.

My experience too and I think there's two things at force here: 1) As you say, exponential proliferation of crap to learn. If there was 1,000,000 things to learn when I made it fucking first at the university admission exam some 20 years ago, now there's 1,000,000,000,000 of them. Sorry but...

Got admitted *the fucking first* at the hardest university in the city some 20 years ago. Used to work for the only capital markets company here a while ago, battling for "the hottest" with a banking one, left them and now I work for what's probably the hottest startup here - directly competing...

Can't argue with you on that but see my latest post on this subsection of ET. If you need a job as a developer and most of us do, it's that trash you compete against. And if you don't know what you're dealing with or how to deal with it, you'll be homeless on the streets long before making it...

Read and be scared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320974 Synopsis: "I've spent last year interviewing only to find out that I'm considered too old (I'm 45) for most shops around. They won't spit it out directly of course but people talk and what they say is that I need to be stellar or...

This site is definitely selecting for guys interested in trading, and this "App Development subsection might intersect with the crowd that at least heard of Hacker News. So any of you geeky enough to read Hacker News on a regular basis? I'm of course guilty as charged, since I started this...