The thing I love about blog posts like these is how it reminds me that the tech world is a vast ocean that encompasses so many disciplines; it's not all full stack web development.
Related: I did not understand 95% of what she wrote.
When I first came to HN, I didn't know what `hn`, `pg`, or other initialisms meant. But I saw people boasting in the new vocabulary of "full stack developer." And I assumed that if companies loved "javascript down to redis" that they would really love that I could do front end all the way down to embedded development. Think of the problems all my full stack knowledge could solve!
I wrote here a couple days ago: "For a Hacker News degenerate, everything in the world revolves around bean-counting B2B SaaS CRUD crapps, but it doesn't mean it's all there is to the world, right?"
I didn't even know that 180nm was still a thing but clearly it is because apparently the cost difference is like USD 100M for 180nm vs USD 10B or more for the latest tech?
Is it true that we will likely have these 180nm chips for things like light bulbs for the foreseeable future?
pjc50|1 month ago
- IC design software (at a startup bought by Cadence)
- an IC (contract out of Dallas semi)
- FPGA HFT acceleration
- fixing some OS drivers for Windows CE
- finding a compiler bug
- various bits of embedded firmware in C and assembly for various platforms
- debugging with a scope
- desktop applications
- a web server (defunct ZWS)
- web apps (Perl. Long time ago)
Somehow I've never written a react app.
choilive|1 month ago
Count your blessings.
elevation|1 month ago
Never got an offer through "who's hiring" though.
tucnak|1 month ago
mcny|1 month ago
Is it true that we will likely have these 180nm chips for things like light bulbs for the foreseeable future?
random_duck|1 month ago