The article is horrible, don't bother clicking through. But the 'full-stack developer' is an interesting beast. Web development is obscenely complex, that inhe

The article is horrible, don't bother clicking through. But the 'full-stack developer' is an interesting beast. Web development is obscenely complex, that inherent complexity is compounded by developers that don't take the domain seriously and designers that should probably just stick to Photoshop. My feet-first introduction to 'real' front-end was fixing a designer's awful HTML / CSS over the objections of the client who wanted me to just let him do his job. I had to redo the layout and re-style the whole project, because it wouldn't work at all with IE's box model. Took a whole day and at the end of it the client admitted I was right and we were able to move on. There was no way the designer was ever going to fix his broken code. I feel like "full-stack" is this year's "rockstar", "ninja", "10x" programmer. Weasel words that employers use in the sole aim of short-staffing their departments.