In the early days of justin.tv (I was employee #6 if you include the 4 founders) there was almost no overlap in skill-sets. Everything in the company had a bus-count of exactly 1, we were permanently on-call, and I don't think anyone had a vacation for a very long time. It probably sounds painful (and it was!), but it meant we got an incredible amount of work done.
Of course there's often more than one way to skin a cat, and YMMV ;)
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In the early days of justin.tv (I was employee #6 if you include the 4 founders) there was almost no overlap in skill-sets. Everything in the company had a bus-count of exactly 1, we were permanently on-call, and I don't think anyone had a vacation for a very long time. It probably sounds painful (and it was!), but it meant we got an incredible amount of work done.
Of course there's often more than one way to skin a cat, and YMMV ;)