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Discouraged Developer

by pswenson on 7/17/14, 9:51 PM with 10 comments

  • by imperium on 7/17/14, 10:15 PM

    It does make sense actually. There is too much going on. There is no upper lid to the limitations of being a "Full Stack Developer". There is something new almost every week, if not every day. I have been going through almost same thought stream, so definitely can related to it.

    My inclination is towards the idea of learning what you need, and learn enough about it to make/code something valuable.

  • by bra-ket on 7/18/14, 1:04 AM

    I think "Full Stack" developer is a more of a character trait than a badge of knowledge. I.e. it has to do more with being stubborn enough to debug problem after problem like this until the entire thing is working, vs. skills in yet another ephemeral technology.

  • by mamcx on 7/17/14, 11:21 PM

    Is interesting to think in the lack of effort in build simpler/smaller system aka programming languages. Instead, it become bigger, messier and harder. Some more than others.

    But look like developers (at large) fight with Java-like bureaucracy instead of replace it.

    For example, In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048014 is discussed how great could be the use of Nimrod, but the lack of ecosystem kill this for a lot of people. The energy on build it is hard. However, the energy of battle against the complexity of a ecosystem like Java is bigger... so weird, not?

  • by deadghost on 7/18/14, 12:05 AM

    You know, there's just so much. I've been at it four years and I still feel like a damn newbie.

    Gotta know your linux, your scripting, vagrant, docker, salt, git, testing, continuous integration, editor(evil + emacs in my case), algorithms, datastructures, best practices, libraries you are currently using, sql, how servers work, how the web works, memory management, and on and on and on.

    On top of that, synthesize all of the above into something usable and maintainable, then maintain it. I'm starting to suspect the day I have a good grasp of the basics is the day I become a master.