You can be very smart but have no connections and no money and be unable to find a job. Who you know matters way more than what you know.

This list is only an excuse for not being smart, not for being unable to get a good job.

No where on the website does it mention not having a job or being unemployed.

Assuming it is true that who you know matters most, then why not use your smarts to figure out how to get to know the right people?

Yeah, the 'no excuses' part was more in the vein of "you have no excuses not to learn something."

the site said nothing about finding a good job. it only says you have no excuse not to learn something.

and being smart != being educated.

Yet nobody seems to care about reducing the initial hiring pool to some statistic and only hiring college graduates who think HTML5 is a programming language.