I think this post is falsely trying to accuse Google of something.
Remember Google is a company that doesn't make money out of its products and a lot of their stuff are open sourced like Android for people to be able to keep them alive.
What happened with Google glass and its on the makings documentary about it, is that they wanted to make some breakthrough in technology. They never planned on making the glass work 100% or become and iphone that everyone would kill to acquire, because they are not looking into that kind of profit.
I find that post being on some short of a steak with google and wants to blame them for their own product and how its doing...
I kinda agree but at the same time I disagree with you. You make a fair point on saying few stuff.
I do agree that I wouldn't advise someone to start a career with programming if they were 30's and 40's. But yet again everything is doable.
But for a 15y/o learning some programming stuff... for him programming can be a career. Don't forget we have so many new stuff coming out everyday that older programmers if they exist and they haven't become project managers wouldn't really go into.
Also when you mentioned Wordpress because he has knowledge of HTML and CSS... well he had* prolly. Atm I would say that CSS is a very complicated and delicate thing that pays well to people that own that field. With mobile and tablets you need to know how to write responsive code. CSS has move from when it was just static text.
To the Original poster: I can't really think of anyone around my circle which includes most of the UK's leading Tech Companies and a lot in San Fran, that would go off and hire a 30-40 years old person that has some experience in programming but he is not actually a programmer.
They can start as junior developers but again the salary will be low and the competition to get in that field... plus people that are hiring for junior developers would like to see a youngster that can learn and become a senior after few years, I don't think they will go with someone older than 25 unless they are looking for a frontend developer passing it as a junior developer role.
My advise to them is maybe to start off their own little thing maybe a webproject or a mobile app and try to find investors?
On one of the comments you replied that one of the guys is from Vienna(Austria) I thought that Austria has a very good economy atm. I get why the other guy from Spain has trouble but Switzerland and Austria are on top of EU atm.
just absurd... the government should take action on this and the consumer rights. Just close down the hotel and get the managers to the court for scam.
Sorry It was nice and made nice points but it seems like you just want to advertise your own business by offering to rewrite CV's and a link to your site.
In your case I'd speak with the highest ranked staff I could find in the UNI and let them know the situation... not even in the army are that cruel.
If that person couldn't help, I'd quit that awful environment and I'd also try to publish it through the News or something. Get some bad publicity going on for them!
This is not a place for human to work in... Time flies and the birth of a child is not something you'l see everyday!
But wire does a report at it oh 1st on YC... this site is full of brats... /neveragain checking this site out.
Shadoban me.thanks