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Haha, no you can't -- we want people who can do that and Ruby on Rails too. ;-) I know you were just trying to be flip, but JavaScript is a pretty amazing lang

Haha, no you can't -- we want people who can do that and Ruby on Rails too. ;-) I know you were just trying to be flip, but JavaScript is a pretty amazing language for writing frontend code.

wheels 18y ago
Well, but if you got a PhD from Stanford with aspirations of being a Javascript developer, it would seem a bit like killing a mosquito with a thermo-nuclear warhead.
- comatose_kid 18y ago
  I guess it depends on what you're doing with the Javascript.
  - Maro 18y ago
    "I'm writing code that takes pictures from email attachments and displays them as web pages. I did the theoretical research for this at Stanford under Prof. Lewis."
    - marketer 18y ago
      Blogging is a huge market. And it's growing. And the big players are making tons of money. Seems like a great thing for a couple Stanford grads to be doing. If you want to trivialize creating a successful blog platform, I suggest you try it, and let us know how it's doing in 6 months.
      - skalpelis 18y ago
        There are two kinds of untrivial - untrivial as in difficult and hard, and untrivial as in time-consuming and demanding a lot of work. Academic training prepares you for the first kind, professional - for the other one, and, suffice to say, this conversation consists mostly of elitist denigration of academic trivialities whereas you seem to be worked up about some disrespect of work ethic where in reality there is no disrespect.
      - alex_c 18y ago
        If you want to trivialize creating a successful blog platform, I suggest you try it, and let us know how it's doing in 6 months That's a bit of a strawman argument. I am willing to bet hard cash that the majority of web startups that fail do not fail because their programmers don't know enough computer science, or don't know JavaScript well enough (and the two aren't even really related).
- pg 18y ago
  What is a "Javascript developer" exactly? Do you mean someone like Paul Buchheit?
  - wheels 18y ago
    I feel like there's a topical drift here that wasn't intended. Paul B's done some amazingly clever stuff, but would a PhD have made him better at that? My point wasn't that Javascript developers are dumb, but that a PhD isn't going to make you more qualified to do Javascript application programming.
  - brlewis 18y ago
    Surely not him. The voting button code he wrote for news.yc is a total hack. I know, because I copied it and used it on my own site.

Haha, no you can't -- we want people who can do that and Ruby on Rails too. ;-) I know you were just trying to be flip, but JavaScript is a pretty amazing language for writing frontend code.

wheels 18y ago

Well, but if you got a PhD from Stanford with aspirations of being a Javascript developer, it would seem a bit like killing a mosquito with a thermo-nuclear warhead.

comatose_kid 18y ago
I guess it depends on what you're doing with the Javascript.
- Maro 18y ago
  "I'm writing code that takes pictures from email attachments and displays them as web pages. I did the theoretical research for this at Stanford under Prof. Lewis."
  - marketer 18y ago
    Blogging is a huge market. And it's growing. And the big players are making tons of money. Seems like a great thing for a couple Stanford grads to be doing. If you want to trivialize creating a successful blog platform, I suggest you try it, and let us know how it's doing in 6 months.
    - skalpelis 18y ago
      There are two kinds of untrivial - untrivial as in difficult and hard, and untrivial as in time-consuming and demanding a lot of work. Academic training prepares you for the first kind, professional - for the other one, and, suffice to say, this conversation consists mostly of elitist denigration of academic trivialities whereas you seem to be worked up about some disrespect of work ethic where in reality there is no disrespect.
    - alex_c 18y ago
      If you want to trivialize creating a successful blog platform, I suggest you try it, and let us know how it's doing in 6 months That's a bit of a strawman argument. I am willing to bet hard cash that the majority of web startups that fail do not fail because their programmers don't know enough computer science, or don't know JavaScript well enough (and the two aren't even really related).
pg 18y ago
What is a "Javascript developer" exactly? Do you mean someone like Paul Buchheit?
- wheels 18y ago
  I feel like there's a topical drift here that wasn't intended. Paul B's done some amazingly clever stuff, but would a PhD have made him better at that? My point wasn't that Javascript developers are dumb, but that a PhD isn't going to make you more qualified to do Javascript application programming.
- brlewis 18y ago
  Surely not him. The voting button code he wrote for news.yc is a total hack. I know, because I copied it and used it on my own site.