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Re: Show HN: HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers

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What distinguishes your site from a site like AngelList.co?

I'd say quite a few things. We're focused on developers, not companies. This is not a place to showcase a startup or court VC money; this is a place where developers can build a new type of interactive resume and leverage it to find solid jobs.

Re: Show HN: HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers

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Interesting idea. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I love the full stack and want to pursue it as my post-grad career. That being said, it seems like full-stack people are only really valuable in situations in which their full-stack capabilities of wearing multiple hats is competitively needed. IMO, that only happens in the early stages of a startup or temporary resource constrained company (i.e. a project…

Good points. First off, thanks for checking out the site. You are absolutely correct that full-stack engineers are _not_ needed at organizations of every size and structure. They are, in my experience, in the highest demand in any organization that has a small to medium size technical team. The reality is that many teams of this size exist--there are far more small teams than their are large ones in the workforce. I…

And it really depends on how the company breaks down their development teams. Some do it by function, but some large enterprises divide things by business area - so you'll have a team for accounting, one for packaging, one for manufacturing, etc. In that sort of structure, generalists are much more valuable.

Re: Show HN: HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers

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your city search is broken ... i type in gibberish ("asdfasdfasdfasdf") and get a Django error dump. Srsly ... this should be fixed asap. I'll say one thing about your clientele they rather have things work good then look nice. But both are important, welcome to the web.

Re: Show HN: HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers

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"full stack web developer" What do we call people that are actually full-stack, rather than just the front-end client/server parts?

In the context of Web development, what are the parts of the stack that are not the client or the server? I thought those were the things that defined the Web.

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"full stack web developer" What do we call people that are actually full-stack, rather than just the front-end client/server parts?

In the context of Web development, what are the parts of the stack that are not the client or the server? I thought those were the things that defined the Web.

I'm a full stack dev that's built out distributed systems and has filled in for the role of "resident DBA" while still doing backend and frontend dev.

Now I'm learning biomedical NLP.

So what do we call me? Stuffed-full-stack dev?

There's more to life than knowing Rails and Coffeescript.

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"full stack web developer" What do we call people that are actually full-stack, rather than just the front-end client/server parts?

I agree. Full stack is from a time where you had no choice but to setup the server, configure the network and then build the front end and the backend of the app.

Full-stack it seems, has become a diluted term now.

Re: Show HN: HeapSort – Jobs for Full Stack Software Engineers

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Hi Guys--I'm a co-founder at HeapSort. We just launched our MVP this week and we're looking for constructive feedback from the developer and startup communities. In the coming weeks we'll be launching a series of powerful resume building tools specifically for full stack engineers. It's not just another job board--we're going to totally change the way developers convey their skills to employers. We welcome any though…

Please include a broader description of Full-stack developers accurate to the term historically over the years.

Full-stack to many (more than not) means hardware, software, and the associated network setup, all in one person.

Being fluent in front/backend software only was normal, not specialized.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the context of Web development, what are the parts of the stack that are not the client or the server? I thought those were the things that defined the Web.

I'm a full stack dev that's built out distributed systems and has filled in for the role of "resident DBA" while still doing backend and frontend dev. Now I'm learning biomedical NLP. So what do we call me? Stuffed-full-stack dev? There's more to life than knowing Rails and Coffeescript.

Note that the phrase employed here was "full-stack web dev". It sounds like you aren't doing web development, so that would be the distinction.
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