I view it just like many other educational certificates. It is a positive that you have earned it. What's most important is what have you done with it and what can you do with it.
Bootcamps don't change people, they just provide tools for their students to continue learning.
I'd carefully weigh any advice received with the experience of the source. Not to say that anyone that has not been in a similar situation had no value. But rather people who have had similar experience will be of more value.
That being said these are the considerations that were in my mind when I was in a similar position.
1. Just like an investor or even more so, how much do I believe in the founder.
2. How confident are you in your abilities. Are you able to cope with stress/uncertainty and preserver in the face of daunting tasks.
3. How much do you believe that there is a business somewhere in there?
If you are enthusiastic about all 3 the risk is worth it. Feat and doubt are poor reasons to not do something. Fear is a good sign to pause and evaluate the situation. There is only one way to find out if you have what it takes. Also if you think taking a low income (or no income) is a big issue now. It only gets harder as you get older. Wife, kids, mortgage and general lifestyle inflation.
HonkMobile | Full-Time (Onsite or Remote) | Toronto, ON
HonkMobile is looking to change the way that the parking industry operates both for consumers and operators. The idea at it's core is simple, allow consumers to pay for parking via their smartphones. The execution of that idea is what separates us. We have significant traction and are processing thousands of dollars per day and growing!
This is a great opportunity for you to join a small/nimble team with no egos. We are pragmatic and care about our craft and expect anyone who joins to be the same. Our home base is Toronto but we already have a mix of onsite and remote employees.
What’s the job?
The position would be senior software engineer. In reality you would be able to contribute to all parts of the application. Everything from creating new react components, implementing new API authentication schemes to building new native mobile applications.
Our Stack
- Ruby on Rails API
- React/AngularJS front-ends
- Android/iOS native applications
Contact tony (at) honkmobile.com if you are interested
Definitely not the best in terms of user experience but it has enough features I didn't know I need, that it keeps me happy.
Things like multiple auto-reminders for late payments and reoccurring invoices saved me alot of time. I didn't need them when I was looking around at invoicing software but now I do.
I'm looking for an Rails generalist to help with ongoing contracts for building upon established Rails applications. General application stack is Rails/Haml/Sass/jQuery/Backbone.js.
I'm a small single man dev shop scaling out my business. Drop me a line if you are interested in possibly working together tony at digitalalch.com.
This is my whole problem with Bitcoin. Too many people see it through an "investment lens". Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency not an investment at it's heart:
"Used as a medium of exchange for goods and services, currency is the basis for trade."
People's perception coupled with the deflationary nature of Bitcoin makes me not want to participate.
I used to work at Microsoft so i can alpreciate how that shapes the lense of how you view the world.
I think the statement that Rails might of gotten further on the windows platform is a ridiculous statement. Ruby as far back as remember is a language that prefered environment was Linux. There was a point where there was no windows version. I remember when even on OSX the installation of ruby was an endevour. OpenSsl incompatabilities, gems with c extensions that never worked right (rMagick which is a Linux first lib). So the underlying language that backs Rails is not windows friendly. There is no doubt in my mind that Windows would have been a hindrance not a positive.
Macs are only popular because for the most part they are similar enough to Linux that you can develop on a Mac and deploy to Linux. I don't know of one Rails shop that chooses to deploy on Windows.
Bootcamps don't change people, they just provide tools for their students to continue learning.