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Comment by rschmitty | Hacker News Reader

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!

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I know you're tongue in cheek, but it really is true, that 'stack' depends entirely on your viewpoint.

For an electrical engineer, working in wireless communications, the stack starts with radio propagation, then radio transceivers, sampling/reconstruction, (de)modulation, error correction, medium access and ends at the kernel driver. Someone who is "full stack" above the kernel driver could be blissfully unaware of the layers of turtles below them.

Then, for the know-it-all communications engineers, there are the device engineers, whose stack starts at the subatomic level, and progresses through atoms, molecules, layers, devices, subsystems, circuits, packages and ends at the integrated circuit.

Indeed, magnetized needle and a steady hand is the only tool a full-stack developer needs.

Ah, but what about emacs?

I just don't trust someone to write my web app who doesn't understand how electrons move.

Fuckin' magnets. How do they work?

Note to self: Dont hire a pair of clowns to build a web app, if they answer "miracles" to that question

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