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There is web development and there is web development. To be able to contribute effectively to systems at the scale of something like Shopify (or anything resem
by falcor84 7y ago
There is web development and there is web development. To be able to contribute effectively to systems at the scale of something like Shopify (or anything resembling FAANG levels), there's a lot of value to a good theoretical foundation. You obviously don't have to do a degree to acquire that, but it can definitely help.
- alexashka 7y agoFeel free to judge the tree by its fruits. Feel free to tell me what FAANG has accomplished in the past 10 years besides monopoly status, global surveillance and serving ads? All that good theoretical foundation - you mean leetcode for 6 months right? All that good theoretical foundation - you mean React and Angular? What great accomplishments...
- joefourier 7y agoI'm not a fan of the Javascript front-end framework trendwheel, but the back-end and infrastructure of Facebook, Google, Netflix and Amazon is fairly impressive. Building those systems and scaling them to billions of users is no mundane technical feat.
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- runawaybottle 7y agoAh yes, the dev caste system. Python devs don’t like Java devs. They both hate PHP devs, and eeeeveryone hates Javascript devs.
- temptempLISP 7y agoWell, some languages are inferior while others are superior. It's not about the people, but the languages - LISP is better than all of the shit that people are using today.
- blahbhthrow3748 7y agoYou could absolutely work on Shopify without a CS degree. There's probably a 10:1 ratio of people churning out features versus people doing infra and tooling to support those devs.