Re:Are mutts like me welcome on HN?
by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday January 01, 2009 @06:30PM
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How are you a mutt? Think of yourself as multidimensional -- having knowledge of doing more than web app software.
My undergrad is in Electrical Engineering. I designed industrial data monitoring & control equipment for a few years, then started doing embedded software. Got an MS in software engineering. Did more embedded, did some MFC stuff, dabbled in cgi scripts and Zope for a while. Somewhere in there had a small 2-person side business building temperature monitoring equipment for a few years. Now working on movie camera motion control. I'm about as far from Web 2.0 as you're going to get :-)
I like it here and I also hang out on Spolsky's Business of Software forum. In both cases I get more out of the business discussion than the software discussion.
I for one welcome someone with wider scope of experience who can bring something new to the discussions.
My undergrad is in Electrical Engineering. I designed industrial data monitoring & control equipment for a few years, then started doing embedded software. Got an MS in software engineering. Did more embedded, did some MFC stuff, dabbled in cgi scripts and Zope for a while. Somewhere in there had a small 2-person side business building temperature monitoring equipment for a few years. Now working on movie camera motion control. I'm about as far from Web 2.0 as you're going to get :-)
I like it here and I also hang out on Spolsky's Business of Software forum. In both cases I get more out of the business discussion than the software discussion.
I for one welcome someone with wider scope of experience who can bring something new to the discussions.