that interview is fucking trash and I'll prove it.

there is a high bar to clear. It often feels as if you need to surpass whatever the existing functionality is. Just to get accepted, you have to offer something better than some existing product that may have been around for decades.

when has it NOT been a high bar? the original maintainers weren't just creating a thing for a thing. they were creating THE thing that usually directly competed with a global tech powerhouse with hundreds of developers and a budget in the millions.

getting a youngster to share their code for the whole world to see is a very intimidating prospect.

when has it not been?! stop being a bitch and put your shitty code out there. nobody is going to give a fuck about it anyway.

problem is, they[classes] often don't cover material that's essential for contributing. For instance, using tools like Git, and indeed, not just Git itself, but also supporting infrastructure such as GitHub. And this applies equally to GitLab and other alternatives.

git gud. git over it. this person acts like experienced devs just popped out of their mothers vagina knowing all the shit they do. invest the time in to improve your skills and you will reap the benefits a hundred fold. you can't become a master overnight, it takes time and experience.

Why do FOSS at all? What's the incentive to write something and make it open source? Why not spend your time and effort on starting a company and trying to get rich? As most contributors report, working in FOSS can often lead to a terrible life/work balace.

I'm so glad he finally said it. the WHOLE problem with young devs is that almost all of them are looking to get rich and retire from developing with some "big idea". they don't want to solve problems. they don't want to improve technology. if it wasn't for the fact that they spend the majority of their day in their job as "developers" you would have to call them ~~vulture~~ venture capitalists. VCs are negatively aligned with FOSS ideologies, so of course they aren't interested in building something for free.

it's because Jr devs were indoctrinated into the church of google and microsoft and apple and ibm and amazon before they even knew what code was. they were handed keys to big flashy sdks and told "you're a real dev now! go create something big for us!"

being a developer is more than just slinging code. it's more than the salary. it's more than the clout and the hype and the long hours and thankless weekends.

being a developer is about seeking out problems in the world and solving them with science. but not just any problem, a problem that can actually be solved with science. not masked, not repaired, solved.

any dev that can't understand that will always be subpar in my opinion. I'm not gatekeeping, I'm just setting the bar high enough that the field isn't flooded with talentless greedy VC-wannabes that it collapses. Setting the bar high is healthy, after all not just anybody can apply and become a QB for a national football team, or a CEO of a company, or a doctor....