Jonathan Blow on the 'Stack'

All hail the beautiful stack.

[saniancreations]

"you shouldn't be proud of how much poop is in your pants" -Jonathan Blow

I'm gonna bring that one up in conversations from now on, more people need to hear this wisdom.

[HuntersHunter]

"People think it's okay to say like 'The Stack'." he's so funny

[feralaca]

I wish I could have the time to stop the ball and learn how things work at a lower level, but I'm a web developer and they keep adding things to "the stack", lol. Jokes aside, listening to Jon helped me to appreciate simplicity and to strive for efficiency.

[boonman]

People being proud of the amount of poop they have in their pant IS the current zeitgeist.

[Mike.Garcia]

he's from an era were good software was lean and mean, not big and poop

[ilgibadominanto]

Fun fact, the whole video I thought he was referring to the stack as in the stack segment of a program. I thought the guy was making a weird question about jai and its stack usage? I've been really confused through all the video until I starting reading the comments...

[Nikonowincolour]

"I'm not sure that's a great analogy either" LOL

[..]

Someone please ask him if Jai can run in the Cloud(tm) and handle Big Data.

[Spiderboydk]

Every developer should be a full stack developer. If one thinks that is unrealistic or unreasonable, well, there's the problem with the stack.

[GodOfMacro]

very shitty analogy, but I liked it haha

[SimGunther]

The only stacks I need are:
0. Index cards filled with smart notes
1. Stack data struct in my stack of C programs
2. Stack of pancakes/waffles for breakfast

QQ for the "full stack developers": have they written a device driver? If not, they're not officially a "full stack developer".

[dola]

I didn't know you could stack shit that high.

[thebrd]

full-stack developer = full-pants pooper

[SeanDS]

What is this... "the stack" he is referring to? I'm so confused lol

[hxon]

I only talk about the stack while playing Magic: The Gathering.

[dukereg]

"The Stack"? 'Round these parts we call it "a giant wobbling tower of faff and bullshit". Must be a dialect thing.😉

[RussTeeTrombone]

There’s fewer and fewer people
In this rotten industry that share opinions with Mr Blow and we’re all far worse off for it

[Flackon]

So, what is the alternative to replace the stack?

[cdarklock]

At least we have a stack and not a heap

[xaf]

I think the stack is good for quickly onboarding people in. Software development is vast, using a stack limits you down. But at the same time it does limit you down a lot.