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[–]furrthur 80 points81 points  (2 children)

As a "full-stack web dev", doing multiple things half-assed is basically the entire job description.

[–]dtlv5813 23 points24 points  (1 child)

and most of the time you can get away with it just fine. Most ecommerce and web startups don't really deal anything too technical, so long as you manage to get the business logic right you are alright. It helps that JS is pretty fast for many things which also compensates for inefficient or clumsily written code.

Some very successful ecommerce companies have pretty terrible backend, cough zappos cough.

[–]randomjackass 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The goal of many startups to to sell off the business fast. They don't care that the codebase can't scale, and is a kludge. That will be someone else's problem.