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Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by burfog on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:56AM (#14145766)
I think you need to be able to debug a crash of the web server or kernel. This means C and at least a bit of a clue about assembly.

I suppose it's OK to not be able to debug a hypervisor.

On the other side of things, probably you also ought to be a competent artist and writer.

Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:20AM (#14146273)
"a crash of the web server or kernel"

That rules out 99% of people who are successfully doing the work right now.

Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by burfog on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:37AM (#14146334)
It rules out 99% of the people successfully doing something which they claim to be "full stack". They might be great at their jobs, but I don't consider them "full stack". Low-level stuff is always part of the stack.

I guess there has been a sort of grade inflation on "full stack". When I go looking in the "Who wants to be hired?" threads for people, my reaction to seeing "full stack" is that the person is almost certainly exaggerating to an extreme. Real "full stack" is super uncommon, but it sounds impressive I guess. It's just not very believable.

Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by flukus on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:27AM (#14146521)
I think you're missing the "web developer" part of the full stack. It means you know all tmthe stack required for web development.

Either way, aren't debugging crashes with c/ASM still taught at uni? Or is the idea of using gdb too much these days?

Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by user5994461 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @06:10AM (#14146671)
Crash of the web server => read the log and find where you made a typo in the config file

crash of the kernel => google the last error lines (hope you have one)