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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by bjwbell on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @03:43PM (#9336626)
This is why I got out of areas of webdev etc that don't value deeper knowledge. I can't say how much more satisfying it is to be learning stuff that is useful for 10 years instead of the webdev framework of the day/month/year.
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by jshen on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:38PM (#9338319)
webdev requires deep knowledge, it just may be a kind of knowledge you aren't interested in. Placing more value in your own pet interests is more than a little condescending.
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by bjwbell on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:52PM (#9338570)
Thats why I qualified by saying "areas" of webdev.
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by hueving on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:59PM (#9338583)
Deep knowledge of what? The way different browsers render things?

All of the Web dev I've been involved in is pretty straight forward stuff to manage records in a database or make it easier to interact with the records on a browser.

The only thing remotely complex was 3d rendering. Perhaps I have a narrow view of what is considered web dev now.

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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by joepie91_ on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @02:20AM (#9339053)
"Webdev" is not fundamentally any different from any other kind of development that involves a client and server component. It just happens to be served in a web browser. You need the same underlying knowledge as for other (common) types of software development.
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by emodendroket on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @09:21AM (#9340538)
It certainly can. But it feels like a lot of the Web dev scene is people chasing their tails around writing yet another JavaScript library that does the same thing as one they're replacing but with slightly different syntax.
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by jshen on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:13PM (#9348611)
and how is this different than dev in general?
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:09PM (#9336808)
What have you moved in to from webdev?
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by bjwbell on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:22PM (#9336898)
Lower level areas - graphics, drivers. I'm a contributor to Servo, which is new tech but if successful will be around for at least a decade.
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