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Awesome. But this is not really related to experience. It is more related to generalist vs specialist. Granted, specialists rarely are unexperienced, a guy t
by speeder 14y ago
Awesome.
But this is not really related to experience.
It is more related to generalist vs specialist.
Granted, specialists rarely are unexperienced, a guy to be a master at something, must do that something a lot.
But nothing prevents your startup from finding the specialist that you need, inexperienced.
Neither finding a generalist for your early development issues, when you are still pivoting around, experienced!
In general, the more experience the better, what matters is finding the best guy for what you need, and early you lean toward generalists, later toward specialists, you might find in both cases great inexperienced people, and poor experienced people, but usually the more experience, the better a person is at whatever it do.
- abstractbill 14y agoI have to agree with this point: Experience is orthogonal to the specialist/generalist axis. I was Justin.TV's first engineering hire, and I was an "old guy" there, but I'm very much an experienced generalist. At one point I was the sole developer responsible for: - Justin.TV's chat system (front and back end; The back end was at the time the world's largest public IRC network, by a factor of at least 3) - All of the site's Flash code - the video players (live and prerecorded), the broadcaster, an embeddable version of chat, and so on - All of the site's advertising code, including our own custom video ad server You can't hire someone who's a specialist in all of the above ;)
- FireBeyond 14y ago"- Justin.TV's chat system (front and back end; The back end was at the time the world's largest public IRC network, by a factor of at least 3)" Out of curiosity - oh? 175,000 concurrent IRC connections? (Based on IRCnet's 58,000) - that would have been an interesting setup.
- abstractbill 14y agoActually if you look at its history, you can see IRCnet (and all of the other big networks) used to be bigger - e.g: http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=IRCnet&submenu=years http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=IRCnet&s... While I was there, Justin.TV's IRC network went over 500,000 concurrents a few times :)