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I 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"

I 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 ago
  Actually 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 :)