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A comment on Ask HN: How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?.
http://dbasch.posterous.com/how-did-you-become-a-hardcore-ba...
Tl;dr: in 1998 I created an mp3 search engine that got significant traffic, had to learn on the fly, ended up going to Inktomi where I joined a team tackling much bigger problems. We all learned a lot over the next four years.
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http://dbasch.posterous.com/how-did-you-become-a-hardcore-ba...
Tl;dr: in 1998 I created an mp3 search engine that got significant traffic, had to learn on the fly, ended up going to Inktomi where I joined a team tackling much bigger problems. We all learned a lot over the next four years.