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Re:Ask HN: Where are all the Rails jobs? by crdoconnor on Saturday November 22, 2014 @02:51AM (#8645091)
>The hard stuff is problem solving, understanding algorithms and their applicability, implementing and using data structures, how computers work, how they represent types and resources, how networks work, network protocols, databases, processes, threading, asynchronous coding etc.

Yeah, and knowing which libraries to use to do all that stuff and what quirks they have.

That type of knowledge doesn't translate overnight between programming ecosystems. It takes years.

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Re:Ask HN: Where are all the Rails jobs? by VieElm on Saturday November 22, 2014 @04:12AM (#8645171)
It takes years because you learn about these things as you go, and you solve them as you go and by looking at the source code of things you're using. People started using and jumping right into scala, and go and and node.js, solving the problems as they ran into them because they had the skill to do so.
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Re:Ask HN: Where are all the Rails jobs? by crdoconnor on Saturday November 22, 2014 @10:32PM (#8647715)
Yet it still takes years.

It's almost worse when the stack is new because there is so much of the wheel that has to be reinvented again.

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