I was just daydreaming about this the other day and would definitely give the finished project a spin. Depending on what you need (I'm a Rails dev, so pretty ok with Ruby in general but probably of not much help on the system end) I'd be happy to support you.
Yeah I'm not disputing the general point that some people would do something like that. But the specific claim about a company called "100% Irish Beef" sounded a bit outlandish, so I googled it.
Unless it's for charity, I don't know who'd hire someone like this over another remote worker in a less precarious and unstable situation. If it's for charity, there are more efficient ways to help people.
Like the other commenter said, I like the spirit. But I don't see it happening, I'm afraid.
Another self-taught programmer from Germany with no formal education to speak off, here. Job ads often pretend to require relevant degrees but companies will absolutely hire people without them. The "If this description doesn't fit you perfectly you should still apply" phrase they often put at the end of their ads isn't always just marketing speech.
"punch-resistant interior walls"
This one is always so funny to me. Coming from the EU, I don't even have a "punch the wall" reflex baked into me, at all. Punch the screen, throw my phone, sure, even though I don't do it.
From a former line of work, many US friends used to punch their walls from time to time. None of my EU friends ever even tried or came close to.
The knowledge box can be 100% wrong, I reported a case where the shown answer was taken from a pop-quiz site - but it wasn't the actual answer, just the first possible (and diametrically wrong) of multiples choices for a user to click on.
You're basically the best player. You'll play maybe 20 hands an hour, live - most of which you'll instantly throw away and make $0. Let's say you play 50% of your hands like a (somehow winning) maniac. That's 10 hands an hour you might make money on. Even the best players' "won money in a hand they put money in" stat is way under 50% - lower, the higher %age of hands they decide play. So you'd expect get 4 winning hands per hour, or 40 hands a day if you have the stamina (and the bad opponents to play with!). Now, most of your winning hands will result in relatively small wins (your opponents also try to win and don't light money on fire) and guess what - the bigger wins and losses stem from the more volatile situations (e.g. going to showdown) where luck plays an even bigger role than in poker in general: It's totally normal to do everything correctly and having to root for a 32% outcome in a big hand.
That long run might never arrive for you, even though you're the best.
I'm not "against poker" by any means, I would not be where I am today without it. Live poker is a (nice) gamble though, not a job.
The problem here is, in professional poker, the long run might never come.
In online poker, every hand you play is tracked and can be analysed and people have "run bad" over hundreds of thousands of hands; more than a casino-player will ever see in their life at 20 hands per hour.
I was a professional poker player in another life and I agree; learning not to be result-orientated is one of the biggest life-lessons it thought me. Deciding to flip a coin for money where you get paid 3x your bet if you win, as long as you can afford to lose half of the time, is correct, regardless of outcome.
The other one is not being afraid of "tough" decisions - often, decisions are tough because all options are close in value. The closer their value is, the less it matters to choose the "correct" path, keeping in mind the future is unknowable and we always have imperfect information.
It kinda is common knowledge though, the French version is right on the official flag and displayed all the time.