So, this is the direction we’re headed. Why is it news when a company does it?

Sports equipment is not entertaining. Don’t pretend otherwise.

That’s just life in general

Nice me too. BTT and unclutter are my 2 critical Mac apps.

Stop

How is this a meme? Where meme?

I thought Uber said they would leave altogether if they passed that law. If the mayor didn’t veto then wouldn’t that lead to a lot of job loss?

I don’t see the value of space stuff right now and don’t understand why humanity has a hard on for it so much.

Eventually, yes. For now, I’d prefer a focus on world peace and fixing the climate.

THEN, once humanity is standing strong and our own earth is taken care of, move on to space.

Counterarguments will not take into account the (im)practicality of space faring and what it can offer to our species. Sure, some of us may colonize mars eventually, but the billions on earth will still be on earth. And the earth is worth salvaging and in a much better place to salvage than fucking mars.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t have research into space, just that we should temper the investment to match the return we get, for now. Going to the moon is not an example of tempered investing. Of course, that said, I don’t blame India for doing it. I just personally find it impractical and ineffective.

As a full stack I feel capable of serving as an architect on a team. I am not sure if I could feel that way if I only honed in on one area.

So I think at least one full stack (architect) kind of person on a team is certainly beneficial.

As far as an entire team of full stacks? I’m sure that would be effective but it may cost a lot of money to have all that talent, where perhaps some tasks could have been done by a non-FS. Also there is the issue where specialization is needed in a certain area, and FS usually don’t offer that.

So I don’t think it would be a mistake, but it may not be as optimal as having a mixed bag where you have a handful of full stacks and then some dedicated FE and BE folks.

To answer your questions:

Do they work: yes

My experience: I’m biased, but I prefer working with full stacks because they get the “big picture” more often. This does translate to a smoother development flow most of the time.

Team size/xp: yes. I work with 2 other full stacks, and then we have some dedicated data engineers, a dedicated FE, and a dedicated data analyst.

Increase/decrease in quality: almost certainly there is a decrease on the FE side because full stacks are thinking about everything. Oftentimes the FE will get “good enough” and we’ll move on. I’ve seen dedicated FE people put a lot more care and attention than I would. However, for the BE I haven’t noticed any decrease in quality vs a dedicated BE.

Actually to address the FE quality issue we’ve arrived at a process whereby the FS builds the full experience and gets it looking mostly good and completely functional, then we pass it off to our dedicated FE person to polish. The polish involves making things look better, responsive, accessible, and ensure legibility. These are things I could do as a FS, but I prefer to lean on the dedicated FE person so I can move onto other things. It’s a system that works really well tbh because the FE person doesn’t have to start from scratch or think about the programming as much, and the FS can still get the FE development done without time sinking the nitty gritty. It’s a win-win.

Increase/decrease in product cohesion: full stacks intrinsically keep the stack cohesive, and that to me is part of the main benefit (see earlier statement regarding the architect role). This translates to the product as features are developed. Often we get a more maintainable system than if a BE and FE got together to agree on an API interface, both may be making concessions to the other that a full stack could work through in their own head and sort out quickly and more effectively.

He should call it Twitter now that the name is available again. Wouldn’t that be hilarious if he just made Twitter all over again and everyone on X went back to Twitter?

I know that won’t happen but it would be super funny to see how Elon reacts to it.

Memorizing lines over and over is how he remembers his lines.

Screw the Olympics anyway.

Browser compatibility. Design flaws can’t easily be fixed like how other languages can just switch to a new major version and introduce breaking changes. ES must keep backwards compatibility so has had to do more additive changes than replacing behavior altogether so that older web pages pages don’t break.

Come now…

What do people even do with those? I know there’s lots to do, but what makes you recommend it in the context of this thread?

I also got into Legos when I was depressed. In general, working with your hands helps with depression.

I absolutely love using git on the command line. I’m comfortable with the commands, and there isn’t much need for clicking since a lot of it is just typing commands, viewing files/diffs, repeat until files are staged, committed, and pushed up. Who needs a GUI for that?

OTOH, I really like postman for constructing and templating network requests. There are a few helpful panes and forms that just fit better on one screen that I can interact with.

To say working with GUIs makes someone a worse engineer sounds very short sighted to me. IMO the best engineers are the ones who use tools that maximize their efficiency.

Would you mind explaining what sideloading is? I’d be interested in ad-free YT

Elon putting a spotlight over his own bad press