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The story I heard when I was in music school was that the word jazz came from the days of slavery. It was intended as a coded way to let others know that there would be prayers and music that evening (e.g. Jass Tonight) but the 'S' would be flipped around. The word stood for "Jesus Amen Save our Souls".

Interesting observations. As someone who came from an enterprise Java background and moved into a startup shop, it is tremendously dispiriting and disappointing to see so much disdain for people with backgrounds like mine.

I wouldn't trade my enterprise experience for anything. It gave me a deep appreciation for the craft of software development, and an amazing introduction to complex, well-designed systems (not to mention some terrible ones as well). Without that opportunity to learn process and best practices, I would never have been successful elsewhere in my career.

Of course, you'll always find seat-fillers at big companies, but I think that'd be true no matter where you go. Bad hiring decisions are real, but should not discount or destroy the many great people who grow up in enterprise environments and can make meaningful contributions.

With all due respect to the "move fast, break things" evident in many startups, it leaves behind a big technical mess for the people who help transition the company out of startup phases. I'd bet most would do well to incorporate a few more stodgy enterprise devs earlier in the process to help steer the software toward a sustainable path.

The compensation structure has been significantly revamped since then. Partnership isn't what it used to be, so people don't get the big payments like they used to.

Agreed. Currently working with a host of legacy ruby projects that we're slowly migrating to elixir. We've used hack-arounds to leverage the existing ruby projects up until now. If this library proves to be production-worthy, it'll be a great bridge for addressing some technical debt.

Please give this person a medal.

Powerline support? Kind of a dealbreaker.