Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs • Hacker News Board

Re: Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs

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Post by oscardelben » Thu, Jul 08, 2010, 12:12 PM UTC

mattmanser wrote: post #40

btmorex wrote: post #20

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You can also just hire someone who's smart and willing to learn. I mean web development isn't that hard. I know everyone wants to hire someone who meets every single one of their many requirements (we've all seen the job ads), but realistically how long is it going to take a smart developer to pickup say Javascript + whatever APIs you're using? A few weeks? You could easily spend months trying to find the perfect hir…

lol, web development isn't that hard? Dream on.

It's not that hard compared to other skills. Anyway web development includes a lot of stuff, and you can really go low level if you have to implement algorithms and address scalability.

Re: Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs

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Post by lowkey » Thu, Jul 08, 2010, 7:19 PM UTC

dpritchett wrote: post #26

troels wrote: post #24

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Yeah - That's a pet-peeve of mine: frontend and backend are entirely contextual. Some people would say backend about server side code. Other might split the server side code into two. Some times your application uses web services; Then people often refer to those as being backend for your application. Without further qualification, the words are meaningless.

I met with an angel once who seemed to feel frontend meant suits and backend meant coders. I completely misunderstood his question because I was thinking of the coders' definition of the terms.

Are you sure he wasn't talking about front-office vs. back-office?

Re: Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs

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Post by dpritchett » Thu, Jul 08, 2010, 9:26 PM UTC

lowkey wrote: post #42

dpritchett wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I met with an angel once who seemed to feel frontend meant suits and backend meant coders. I completely misunderstood his question because I was thinking of the coders' definition of the terms.

Are you sure he wasn't talking about front-office vs. back-office?

Nope, never really followed up on it. We were just having an informal chat and that part was clearly confusing to both of us.

Re: Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs

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Post by troels » Mon, Jul 12, 2010, 11:13 AM UTC

dpritchett wrote: post #43

lowkey wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure he wasn't talking about front-office vs. back-office?

Nope, never really followed up on it. We were just having an informal chat and that part was clearly confusing to both of us.

I've heard the same use of the words, although I don't recall the context. Pretty sure he was a suit though.