The 15 year old JavaScript hack knows the following:
And this is evidently all it takes in an area like mine to be a successful Internet Developer, as I lose easily a third of my bids to this faceless little guy, who is apparently related to most of town.
I should point out, however, that a lot of business comes to me to clean up badly done sites - probably half my client load used to be someone else's.
Since I'm really not this cynical or whiney, I've followed this up with How Not to be a 15 Year Old JavaScript Hack, because we all start somehow.