I maintain a couple of fairly extensive websites. I don’t like github because of the politics and the complexity.

I wound up writing a function which iterates. It was hilarious. This snot nosed kid kept trying to correct me and all he did was show his ignorance. I didn’t want to work there and told them so and left. Was pretty funny.

Absolutely. I’ve gotten my last three jobs (over the last 11 years) on the skills I taught myself.

In fact, when I was challenged by one interviewer who haughtily asked: “Can you do this job?”, my response was: “I taught myself to code, out of boredom with games, at age 9. I released my first game at 11. Just a few years later I was gathering analytics on the game from players and using the data to improve the game. Since then I’ve learned Pascal, ADA, Cocoa, C, some C++, HTML, CSS, Perl, some Python, and I’ve currently settled on JavaScript. I worked in the Apple core OS team, and helped to design an enterprise level data and analytics machine. Ya, I think I can do this job and I can make you a lot of money while I work here.” Dude was astounded and I got the job.

In another case I was asked to write a procedure which would iterate through an array. I asked them if they’d care to review the 12,000 lines of code I’d just written that week, many of which iterate through massive arrays.

In short, yes. And I don’t do github.