Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience

Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by 0xC0DECAFE2020 on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:50AM (#13354954)

I recently questioned someone about this very subject. They wanted to hire a "CSS expert" because the "developer" didn't have a grasp of css after having developed the project in JS/HTML. I was so confused as to how that's possible.

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by aegnor on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:56AM (#13355683)

There's a large gap between basic understanding of CSS and actually creating good CSS. Personally I avoid touching CSS as much as possible.

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by sbov on Monday January 09, 2017 @10:11AM (#13356843)

I suck at CSS and do a lot of js/html, but most of my work is on the back end. I can do ok with CSS but it will definitely take me longer than someone who knows what they're doing. Usually we contract out the design/CSS for a few pages and I adopt that for the rest of the website.

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by 3minus1 on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:16AM (#13365362)

CSS is not consistent and complete like a programming language. As someone else mentioned, doing things the correct way in CSS (responsive, cross-browser) is actually very hard, and often requires memorizing weird hacks.

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