I'm surprised Amazon was selling those in the first place. You can just buy them from the company's websites. If I was Amazon, I would sell them either.

Would you even have to take it on a date?

This is bad advice unless you are writing brilliant native code by age 15. Someone who just completed their first full-scale website has a ways to go before he's viable in the job market for a competitive job. Plus you'll miss out on all the parties, girls (or boys I guess), and networking opportunities that school can provide.

My background experience was very similar to yours going into college, and while my major ended up being neurobiology, I made money throughout college developing websites freelance for local businesses and school-related organizations. The way I found clients was to tell everyone that I knew that I was available for website contracting jobs and people would just come to me. I made enough to send myself to Europe AND still have money for beer.

Like you, I found front-end development interesting, but I really loved the back-end work. But if you want to be a full-stack developer one day, you should continue to hone your design skills so that you can complete a full professional-looking website all by yourself without anyone else's help. Also, don't write off front-end work as not being 'programmy' enough. With modern tools like Bootstrap to take care of a lot of the boring work (like forms) and the modern javascript libraries like Angular or Ember or ExtJS, you can do a ton of cool front-end work while still feeling like you're doing more legitimate coding.

I was at PetSmart and a girl was restocking the cat food can shelf and bent over to get the next box. The previous one fell (a 24-can package! not exactly light) and she snagged the thing backhanded as it fell off the shelf. Apparently, ninja's work at PetSmart.

I could have written the exact same post :) Since I stopped playing games like a crackhead, I've picked up golf and woodworking! It feels much better to do have an effect on the real world after 12 years of almost constant game playing.

Try asking a 14 year old kid for directions and you'd have an answer to your research study.

This is ridiculous. How is an artist supposed to make a living without protections?

You know its bad when they consider references to BSOD better than their current OS offering.

Yea, Migration implies that one no longer uses the previous OS. Who learns something and then never ever uses it again? ... actually probably everyone :/

That couldn't be more true. If you aren't developing the functionality of a UI, just the design, you can't possible develop anything good. Once you get into how a control will function, you can understand how a user might react to it intuitively in relation to the rest of the UI.

You should hire better developers then, but unfortunately there are many companies out there with bad developer teams. They are often assembled by recruiters and are not really any kind of cohesive group and lack competent managers.

While the initial design has to be done by the engineers, the polish and perfecting of an application is the most important part and the users can help with that quite well once they've been filtered for idiocy.

Any article posting containing references to Archer gives it legendary status in my book

doh I meant poll. Too much basketball tonight