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Not trying to discount the skill of some web developers at all with the
following statement:

I personally have to laugh at times at the term "Full Stack Web
Developer".    Mainly because I have shipping products which I've done all
the R&D on from the schematics and the board layout through the Responsive
web GUI for the device (HTML5/React).  Yeah there are a few libraries I'm
relying on in there (TCP/IP stack for instance), but even then one has to
dig into those to debug/fix vendor bugs.  But I think that the web
developer's "Full Stack" is missing a bit on the hardware end...



On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 1:57 PM James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org> wrote:

> Thanks Ryan, a great read.
>
> I'm also reminded that applicants for a role experience the
> Dunning-Kruger effect combined with a simple confirmation bias.
>
> Web developers are a cut above the average dish washer; they
> understand procedural languages, computer networking, software
> layering, and standards.  What they don't know for a firmware role can
> be learned, but an employer may want to pay for that training to occur
> before hiring rather than after.
>
> p.s. my web development skills have atrophied, as has my COBOL, but my
> firmware skills are worth testing.  Hire me.  ;-)
>
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