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What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
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Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#32Somebody who knows everything, but not really ;)
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#33Synonym: Loch Ness monster, unicorn, "that dude your boss keeps raving about as the mythical man even though he's a 400K/year pipe dream he can't afford".
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#34A combination of Superman, He-Man and Spiderman. The one, that screws the world; real badly.
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#35Isn't this just a "job agent term" for generalist?
Agreed. This is similar to the generalist sysadmin that can step into a startup to handle all aspects of test/dev/production infrastructure. They don't need to know everything, but they know enough about how it works and can figure out what else you need.
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#36It reminds me of this Blues Brothers quote: Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here? Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western. The tendency of web developers to appropriate well defined terms for their limited little world is a bit unsettling.
Full stack web developer doesn't mean he can do any kind of programming job (embedded, mobile, kernel driver, whatever). It means he can make a web application from A to Z.
A web application involves a lot of very different tasks that are detailed in the article, while other programming fields don't necessarily have such a broad set of tasks.
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#37It reminds me of this Blues Brothers quote: Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here? Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western. The tendency of web developers to appropriate well defined terms for their limited little world is a bit unsettling.
Full stack web developer doesn't mean he can do any kind of programming job (embedded, mobile, kernel driver, whatever). It means he can make a web application from A to Z. A web application involves a lot of very different tasks that are detailed in the article, while other programming fields don't necessarily have such a broad set of tasks.
> A web application involves a lot of very different tasks that are detailed in the article, while other programming fields don't necessarily have such a broad set of tasks.
Or, depending on the field, a vastly greater set of tasks.
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#38The first few times I heard the term "full stack" developer it meant somebody who could understand what's going on at all levels of the call stack. That means from the kernel through C libraries, web server / JIT / high-level server langauge, through network layer, through browser implementation, javascript JIT, javascript / CSS / HTML interpretation and layout and so on. Has this turned into "I can does the servers…
Full stack developers have definitely been watered down over the years. In addition to your list you had to know all the electrical engineering behind the hardware. Further you at least needed a minor in chemistry. I scoff at someone who calls themselves "full stack" developer and couldn't even draw the silicon molecule.
I just don't trust someone to write my web app who doesn't understand how electrons move.
Kids these days, sheesh!
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#39It reminds me of this Blues Brothers quote: Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here? Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western. The tendency of web developers to appropriate well defined terms for their limited little world is a bit unsettling.
I haven't seen the term "full stack developer" used outside of web development at all. Do you have any pointers?
Kernel to application level is one way this was used long before the word was appropriated by web developers.
And sometimes even hardware all the way to application level.
Re: What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
#40The first few times I heard the term "full stack" developer it meant somebody who could understand what's going on at all levels of the call stack. That means from the kernel through C libraries, web server / JIT / high-level server langauge, through network layer, through browser implementation, javascript JIT, javascript / CSS / HTML interpretation and layout and so on. Has this turned into "I can does the servers…
Full stack developers have definitely been watered down over the years. In addition to your list you had to know all the electrical engineering behind the hardware. Further you at least needed a minor in chemistry. I scoff at someone who calls themselves "full stack" developer and couldn't even draw the silicon molecule. I just don't trust someone to write my web app who doesn't understand how electrons move. Kids th…
I just don't trust someone to write my web app who doesn't understand how electrons move.
Fuckin' magnets. How do they work?