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On some of my cover letters I wrote "full stack from the transistors upwards", because at one point or another I have shipped code in:

- 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.



> Somehow I've never written a react app.

Count your blessings.


lol


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!

Never got an offer through "who's hiring" though.




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