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		k__ on April 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tech Industry’s Darkest Secret: It’s All About... Many of the back-end devs in here tell me, back-end is easier, because they can measure everything. Slow = bad Fast = good They probably think a good GUI is a question of taste and can't be measured and they don't want depend on "luck"

crag on April 24, 2013 [–]

The front-end guy also deals with the users more. And after spending 20+ years doing that, us older geeks are more than happy to moved to management or the back-end. Peace and quite.

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