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I assume you'd be interested in startups if you've come to hacker news, so my simple answer would be "San Francisco." I don't know why you don't consider web d

by borlak 14y ago

I assume you'd be interested in startups if you've come to hacker news, so my simple answer would be "San Francisco." I don't know why you don't consider web development a 'programming' job. My favorite language is C and I develop in it for my own projects, but I've had just as much challenging work in designing PHP applications. I've interviewed at several startups that had very difficult and interesting challenges -- and working in Java, Hadoop, etc. So I either don't understand what your real problem is, or you aren't looking hard enough. Also you might consider mobile development, as Java/C++ can still be quite heavy there -- although, things seem to be moving towards multi-platform frameworks such as Adobe Air / Corona / PhoneGap etc.

evincarofautumn 14y ago
“I don’t know why you don’t consider web development a ‘programming’ job. My favorite language is C and I develop in it for my own projects, but I’ve had just as much challenging work in designing PHP applications.” Not to put words in the OP’s mouth, but I for one find that web development usually involves software engineering challenges more than programming ones. By that I mean that you don’t necessarily get to solve interesting technical problems, though there are certainly plenty of architectural and process problems to solve. Some people, myself included, feel much more engaged when there’s something hard to figure out, rather than when there’s just a lot of effort to be put in. It all depends on what you like to do and what feels legitimate to you.