Yep, you can’t pay me enough to do front-end engineering, I’ll happily work for half of anything a front-end job offers me instead at a job that involves optimizing databases and crunching big data with SQL, Hadoop, and R.
John Hardy not a Turnbull fan yes, it’s true what they say that the front-end and back-end devs have a hard time seeing eye-to-eye about what is fun and what isn’t.
But I definitely understood the humor in the article. Actually, I think the joke could apply equally well to any computing platform, all technology is as abstruse and essoteric as how this article makes Web technology appear to be, to people who aren’t immersed in it.
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My favorite JavaScript article.
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Yep, you can’t pay me enough to do front-end engineering, I’ll happily work for half of anything a front-end job offers me instead at a job that involves optimizing databases and crunching big data with SQL, Hadoop, and R.
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Front end is awesome and it’s getting better all the time. Obviously this article is having a little fun with it.
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John Hardy not a Turnbull fan yes, it’s true what they say that the front-end and back-end devs have a hard time seeing eye-to-eye about what is fun and what isn’t.
But I definitely understood the humor in the article. Actually, I think the joke could apply equally well to any computing platform, all technology is as abstruse and essoteric as how this article makes Web technology appear to be, to people who aren’t immersed in it.
commitstrip.com – CommitStrip – The coders’ life blog
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