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Re:Experienced Hires Will Save You From Yourself by abstractbill on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @03:08PM (#5178488)
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 ;)

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Re:Experienced Hires Will Save You From Yourself by FireBeyond on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:24PM (#5179573)
"- 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.

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Re:Experienced Hires Will Save You From Yourself by abstractbill on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @07:09PM (#5179754)
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&s...

While I was there, Justin.TV's IRC network went over 500,000 concurrents a few times :)

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