jfletch1925

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by jfletch1925 13y ago
Nothing but flowers...
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by jfletch1925 15y ago
I don't think I agree completely with that philosophy. I've heard a lot of programmers say that if you program it shouldn't be about the money. It's as if we should all be devout monks of technology eschewing worldly pleasures in the pursui
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by jfletch1925 15y ago
Actually, I have already done something very similar to that and I did it on the job. At one gig, we used Ext JS to create a front-end web app. This web app would make calls back to server methods written in C#. All the data was passed betw
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by jfletch1925 15y ago
That's very good. How exactly did you make the switch? Did you start to participate in an open source project? Did you just start learning it on your own and then gt hired somewhere? I'm very interested in hearing aboout how you made the sw
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by jfletch1925 15y ago
Glad to hear from someone in the same boat as me! I realize this is the case for Java and .NET which is probably the main reason I'm thinking about switching. I've done quite a bit of work with OO Javascript professionally, but I've only do
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by jfletch1925 15y ago
I agree with your advice to younger aspiring programmers and I do think of myself that way. I have no trouble putting in the time to learn another stack. I'm really asking more about how to show a potential employer that it would be worthwh
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by jfletch1925 15y ago
I'm reasonably happy, but I'm currently working for a big corporation and there's nothing very exciting about what I'm doing for work. I have been doing projects in Java, Python and Ruby on the side, but my question is more about making the
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Ask HN: Should I switch to a new stack professionally?
11 points by jfletch1925 15y ago|19 comments