Any Disruptors on The Bore?

[The Sceneman]

I'm talking switched on, forward thinking code NINJAS who have a real eye for UX 3.0 and script flipping web languages. You're going to be a motivated self-starter with your finger on the pulse of the coolest tech trends, but also willing to get your hands dirty in the SCRUM and jamming code with other like minded game-changers. Z0mb13s need not apply..... BRAAAAININSNSS!!!111

/preamble

Seriously now, the amount of job ads that use this kind of vernacular. What are they thinking/who are they fooling?

Anyhow I'm not finding much work in the front end web space so I'm upskilling and learning Ruby on Rails. Cant wait to get a piece of this pie and thrive

[VomKriege]

Been glancing at a couple of job ads and yes the amount of buzz words per sentence is disgusting.

[Joe Molotov]

Do you know anything about hackers? Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? You ever read Neuromancer? Ever experienced the new wave? The next wave? The green wave? Or Cyberpunk?

[Take My Breh Away]

Two job ads in my inbox today asked if I could be a "meme creator" and "Experienced in memes and viral content"

 

[VomKriege]

...you'll also be a coffee curator for our executive board.

[TakingBackSunday]

Unfortunate side effect of the start up environment in most growing cities.

Just call me a fucking project manager, not a "Team Conditioner."

Also Ruby on Rails

Also Python rules too

[The Sceneman]

Yeah I'm having a lot of fun learning Ruby so far. I can definitely see the power of this language

[TakingBackSunday]

I only vaguely understand some of its ins-and-outs, but I've experienced nothing but excellent platforms built on Ruby

[Joe Molotov]

Two job ads in my inbox today asked if I could be a "meme creator" and "Experienced in memes and viral content"

 

Sounds like a scam to get you to send them your rare pepes.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I'm talking switched on, forward thinking code NINJAS who have a real eye for UX 3.0 and script flipping web languages. You're going to be a motivated self-starter with your finger on the pulse of the coolest tech trends, but also willing to get your hands dirty in the SCRUM and jamming code with other like minded game-changers. Z0mb13s need not apply..... BRAAAAININSNSS!!!111

/preamble

Seriously now, the amount of job ads that use this kind of vernacular. What are they thinking/who are they fooling?

Anyhow I'm not finding much work in the front end web space so I'm upskilling and learning Ruby on Rails. Cant wait to get a piece of this pie and thrive

Agree on lame  buzzwords

I have no idea what you can do really, do you know Unity?

[demi]

Yeah I'm having a lot of fun learning Ruby so far. I can definitely see the power of this language

Learn Node or Angular instead, JavaScript is the hotness

[TakingBackSunday]

Yeah I'm having a lot of fun learning Ruby so far. I can definitely see the power of this language

Learn Node or Angular instead, JavaScript is the hotness

depends on whether you wanna be more of a front end dev or not

[demi]

Yeah I'm having a lot of fun learning Ruby so far. I can definitely see the power of this language

Learn Node or Angular instead, JavaScript is the hotness

depends on whether you wanna be more of a front end dev or not

Anyhow I'm not finding much work in the front end web space

[demi]

I need to get familiar with Git myself or general workflow - but every time I try to look at resources on learning its very overwhelming. Are there distinguished mentally-challenged ELI5 pages out there?

[archnemesis]

JavaScript is fine for backend in 2016. MEAN stack (mean.io) is becoming real popular.

Basic Git is super simple, and when that fails there is always an ugly workaround you could use.

[TakingBackSunday]

Also Ruby on Rails

Welcome to 10 years ago? It's all about that Elixir/Phoenix framework now.

Phoenix is tits, yeah

demi have you tried codeacademy?

https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-git

[archnemesis]

If you want to become a coder then it is wise to not restrict yourself to a single framework. This guy might be a bit extreme, but he raises some good points.

You can make a good living for yourself using any language as long as you become proficient. Take a look at the new developer survey at Stack Overflow to see the rising trends. For web development the winners are React, Node.js, AngularJS and maybe Python. Ruby and PHP have a negative trend.

[thisismyusername]

I need to get familiar with Git myself or general workflow - but every time I try to look at resources on learning its very overwhelming. Are there distinguished mentally-challenged ELI5 pages out there?

Like Brandnew said: Codecademy's "beta" tutorial is good. But even then if you use GitHub you can drag and drop commits now, so there's very little reason not to be able to commit things now.

Javascript is pretty practical everywhere. I can see why PHP is dying off, nobody (and I mean nobody) likes that.

[TakingBackSunday]

damn, I needed drag and drop like crazy when I first started using git

[Madrun Badrun]

git commit -m'shit' too hard for you guys?

[G The Resurrected]

So if I live in the bay area and am not learning how to code am I living life wrong? I'm looking for a change and have hit a wall as of late with where I'm going in life. I've worked on projects in the past, but since I had little guidance I would get frustrated and learn bad habits thus creating bad/messy code.

Is this future going to last the next 30 years? Or will computers learn how to code for us and kill us all?

[chronovore]

 Computers already know how to program themselves. The stronger and faster a computer is, the more bloated its code can afford to be. You'll never get a computer writing efficient code.  The problem is whether or not you are going to have a domestic market for writing code, the same way we no longer have a domestic market doing industrial manufacturing. We already see a good portion of code being locally handled by cheaper, imported programmers, or outsourced wholesale to a foreign country.

[The Sceneman]

Yeah I'm having a lot of fun learning Ruby so far. I can definitely see the power of this language

Learn Node or Angular instead, JavaScript is the hotness

Yeah, I started learning Ruby as there's a lot of demand for it here in Wellington, NZ, but there is a lot of demand for Angular JS too, so I'm gonna get on that.

In terms of my learning I checked out the free sample courses at "Code School" which seem to be pretty good, I'm gonna check out Treehouse too.

Basically I'm trying to get some extra languages/skills under my belt as unfortunately my front end experience isn't deep enough. Had a couple of interviews in the past couple of months but haven't quite landed a role. I'll get thurr with a 'lil upskilling and elbow grease

[chronovore]

Computers already know how to program themselves. The stronger and faster a computer is, the more bloated its code can afford to be. You'll never get a computer writing efficient code.  The problem is whether or not you are going to have a domestic market for writing code, the same way we no longer have a domestic market doing industrial manufacturing. We already see a good portion of code being locally handled by cheaper, imported programmers, or outsourced wholesale to a foreign country.

Addendum:
https://twitter.com/muratpak/status/712695058265481216