This seems so common, but few people can admit it (or even recognize it).
Congratulations on having this level of self-awareness, and I'm sure your future will be bright.
I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist
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Re: I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist
#62I don't remember ever being so utterly inexperienced so as to firstly adopt a platform like Ruby on Rails, and then follow it up by making an even worse mistake in adopting Node.js. These platforms seem hip and cool but they actually need extreme levels of discipline, awareness and experience to actually use them in the correct way. I don't think the guy is a perfectionist at all. Perfectionists deliver finished work…
"These platforms seem hip and cool but they actually need extreme levels of discipline, awareness and experience to actually use them in the correct way."
Is there a platform for which this isn't true? Anyone doing anything novel spends most of their time doing things the wrong way.
And it's odd that you single out those platforms -- RoR is extraordinarily beginner friendly, and less than most other platforms helps you stop from shooting yourself in the foot. Node JS with express again is quite trivial. The platforms have literally nothing to do with their problem (the eager platform jumping is a symptom, not a cause), and they would be non-completionists in any other platform as well.
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#63It worries me that so many of us want to jump to this kids defence. He's right, you shouldn't hire him because a developer who can't ship is a developer nobody needs.
He's a junior developer. Give the kid a break. You were there at some point.
For sure, we all were. I did have to chuckle at the Technical Director in the sidebar, though. I'm pretty sure the qualification for technical director [should] include shipping > 0 products.
Re: I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist
#6456 instances of the word "I". That's your problem. All the rest is fluff. OP, try rewriting this, substituting "he", "she", "they", or "you" for "I". Funny how quickly your perceived problems melt away as soon as you stop dwelling on yourself and start focusing on others. Edit: I realize that OP is being slightly sarcastic, but I took this as an opportunity: This is a condensed version of pretty much the same feedbac…
Wasn't the OP's intention to write about themselves though? Changing I to he/she etc doesn't seem like it would make much sense? Could you expand on what you mean?
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Re: I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist
#65That's why I still use vanilla PHP & Postgres for web projects. I don't use any hot new technologies, I don't use frameworks, I don't do unit testing. I try to use as little client side JS as possible. Whenever possible, I use static HTML. The advantage is that I can create a working prototype in days. I can show something to the client very early, and I don't spend months to fulfill specifications the client didn't…
This is good advice, as long as one reads it as "implement with technologies you know and trust". I'm the same way, in a sense, but my technologies list is much longer than PHP + Postgres. It gives me an advantage of having many tools in my toolbox.
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#67I saw a product idea for a product adoption platform where the end users could adopt maker's product and provide feedback along the way, no money involved as Kickstart. Human feedback is usually more motivating than self-conjecture.
Thanks for the reflective piece.
Re: I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist
#68It worries me that so many of us want to jump to this kids defence. He's right, you shouldn't hire him because a developer who can't ship is a developer nobody needs.
A developer who can't ship is a developer nobody needs. A developer who has shipped 0 things obviously can't ship. A developer who has shipped n+1 things isn't really different from one who has shipped n things. I mean, one product? That's not real experience. So, by induction, nobody needs any developers.
Y'all looking at this at a superficial level.
Sure, we all need somewhere to learn, but most of us do this on personal projects, at school or on low paid gigs under superiors who'll kick our asses.
I don't know many technical directors / lead developers who havn't shipped a single project and while some of you might call that "hustle" I call it lying.
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#69Jesus when i read this Article I see me... I love to start new Projects but i never finish them(only when i must because i customer is kicking my ass)... I always have a lot of motivation... but when i sit down and must read or do something i lose focus very often and maybe work on it for 30 minutes or 1 hour and then i start to watch some stupid youtube videos... To this day i dont know how to focus... I got depress…
ZeeFrank sums it up well in Brain Crack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHb3vC9OmE
Additionally, focus comes from discipline. Discipline is forcing yourself to do something even when it's not what you might want to do at that moment.
How to become and stay disciplined is often very personal. Some people focus on the long goal, others on the minutia going from task to task, and still others focus on time (Pomodoro) or lists (GTD).
Re: I’m young, inexperienced and a perfectionist
#70Dont worry I am not going to :)