The full stack developer is a myth

Re:The full stack developer is a myth by airza on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:48PM (#10182981)

well, if you make up a definition for the term for the purposes of your article about how it's an impossible definition to meet, i guess you can write that article.

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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by wintom on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:52PM (#10183012)

Lol, Excellent point.

I was going to say, although full stack is pretty loose, it isn't that loose.

Full stack means you can touch front end code, backend code, and you can design a table or two or dump a few things into a NoSql Db for persistance. That's hard but it's not impossible at all.

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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by vvanders on Monday September 07, 2015 @05:11PM (#10183077)

That reminds me of an old boss that got around visa requirement of hiring local candidate first by posting and incredibly specific job req.

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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by andrewstuart on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:51PM (#10182997)

Agreed. I've never encountered an employer aiming to find a developer who can handle RAID.

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Re:The full stack developer is a myth by rch on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:57PM (#10183030)

Maybe not, but I've seen developers who fail to fully understand RAID make infrastructure decisions that lead to data loss.

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