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Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by collyw on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:25AM (#12275405)
Why shouldn't we? I can do all of that. I can write better code than the the writers of the last two applications I have inherited (admittedly my sysdamin skills are probably less than a full time sysadmin, but good enough).

I guess following your analogy. If you only had a dentist and a salesperson available to do your heart surgery, who would you choose?

Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by tachion on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:32AM (#12275452)
Well, mostly because you don't have the years of experience in doing it, pretty much that. Because most of devs live only on their laptops ('works for me' syndrome), without thinking about networking, hardware underlying, OS tuning, security and other things. That's generalization of course, and I am glad you can do it all, I'd wish to have chance working with people like you more, but the reality is that you're an unicorn. Reversing your argument, why can't I do your job? I mean, I've programming skills probably worse than full time developer, but I've did my share or development and I think they're good enough ;) Why 'good enough' should be acceptable when its infrastructure and operations, but not acceptable when its development?

I'd go and look for actual surgeon. Or bite the bullet and try to live my life as it goes, without risking complete failure of both these guys messing with my heart. ;)

Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by 1138 on Friday August 12, 2016 @10:19AM (#12275824)
Devs that don't think about the environment their code runs in are bad devs. Sadly, this group seems to be large.