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cdennison | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?

I wrote (C#) desktop apps for several years that did manufacturing QA analytics. We went the desktop route because 1) UI development was faster for us (C# vs. jQuery) and 2) Users wanted to interact with Excel in real time (e.g. export).

My experience when I went to look for a job was that I got about 10 interviews and was turned down for all of them because I didn't know about JavaScript, Distributed systems (e.g. load balancers, HTTP caching), WebSockets, deployment pipelines, web services, etc. Don't get my wrong I spent a lot of time reading about all these types of things but until I built an actual API/website it was hard to answer questions about them.

cdennison | 10 years ago | on: What are the biggest headaches as a developer or systems admin?

My experience is that most technical issues have solutions (e.g. see Working Effectively with Legacy Code), but there's now way to fix bad (project) management other than a revolution.

I agree with other people that you can mitigate the pain of bad management by doing things like 1) Write high quality code from day one 2) Automating deployment 3) Minimizing technical debt 4) Doing "spike" when asked to do something new so you don't give a bad estimate.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/122014/what-a...