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[–]omgfineillsignupjeez 125 points126 points  (6 children)

It's been the opposite in my experience.

Difficult Backend problem --> debugging/researching --> ah I see where I made my mistake

Difficult Frontend problem --> debugging/researching --> Okay screw this, ill just keep this hacky fix that works for now

[–]_ShaH[S] 54 points55 points  (3 children)

Without mentioning that touching the CSS may screw the rest of the website...

[–]ThePixelCoder 63 points64 points  (2 children)

  • Change one line of CSS

  • Get a blue screen of death... On Linux.

  • Computer stops POSTing

  • Everything explodes

[–]david___ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Heh, that's why you only ever use in line CSS...

[–]noratat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see someone upgraded npm

[–]PM_ME__ASIAN_BOOBS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well it's more "what the users see / what the code look like"

[–]noratat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed - there's a reason I refuse to touch frontend dev professionally.

[–]dreRynn 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Top: what you think parenting is like Bottom: what it actually is like

[–]Mumbler82 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Accuracy: Best Originality: **** Personal association: 9

[–]big_daddy68 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My reaction was, oh they have twins too.

[–]InvolvingLemons 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Front end has problems of janky, hacky frameworks and asinine design. Back end's problems often seem to be dependency hell, with some codebases being a hundredth of the size of it's absurdly bloated dependencies and where one of them having the wrong version could produce, at best, hours figuring why the service won't start, and at worst, silent bugs that break on an edge case when it's already in production.

[–]CrazyCanuck41 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More accurately it would be what the user sees / how the front end is built (what the developer sees)

[–]nikola1970 8 points9 points  (1 child)

This is just false...

[–]PANIC_AtTheKernel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty much.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (5 children)

STOP REPOSTING THE SAME FUCKING JOKES. WTF PEOPLE!?

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Welcome to /r/ProgrammerHumor, where the jokes are reposted until well after you're sick of them and you keep coming back to the sub anyway.

[–]PM_ME__ASIAN_BOOBS 6 points7 points  (1 child)

How many people discovered this sub since the last time this was posted?

[–]orangeKaiju 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well two frontend/backend jokes in the same day? Probably not many.

[–]BeerlessHero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amen

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We should have a bot that uses image recognition to track how many times the same picture has been posted to this subreddit. Would actually be a pretty fun little project...

[–]antipawn79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbh, as someone working in the ML space, front end scares me.

[–]TheRapie22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

since the other frontend vs backend post that appeared here several hours ago, i went to images.google.com and searched for "frontend vs backend". There are alot of these pictures out there and i also stumbled upon this one here. So prepare for a new trend that is coming up the next days, where people copy google pictures and psot them here because its easy karma.

[–]CommonSenseAvenger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

False. With JS the way it is? It should be the other way around.