Latest Nerd Merit Badge: "Full Stack Web Developer"

John Young says:

Randy Schmidt and I just released our sixth Nerd Merit Badge: FULL STACK WEB DEVELOPER.
This is the merit badge for folks that can turn a pile of loose electrons into a fully operating, styled website.
Just like that mythical date in the eighteenth century when there was too much scientific knowledge for one person to learn in a lifetime, we're approaching the event horizon of the full-stack web developer. But until then, this badge is for those folks that aren't scared of "sudo" AND know how to make rounded corners in CSS!

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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@hcovitz

When I was writing that email to Mark to tell him about that our new badge was out, I wanted to Google up that date. Or the scholarly paper that postulated the date. Or…

…well, I wasn’t able to find it, and I thought I’d say “eighteenth century” and get corrected to the 19th, rather than say “nineteenth century” and get corrected to the 18th. Seems less embarassing that way.

If I can Google up the actual date, I’ll put it here. Last year, I just about pulled my hair out finding that “these darn kids today have no respect” quote from Aristotle, which turned out to be (mostly) spurious:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104
hcovitz

“Just like that mythical date in the eighteenth century when there was too much scientific knowledge for one person to learn in a lifetime”

I have often thought about this point, but haven’t seen it discussed anywhere. Anyone know where I can find more on this subject, in particular any term that is used for it….
hcovitz

“Just like that mythical date in the eighteenth century when there was too much scientific knowledge for one person to learn in a lifetime”

By the way, this would have been in the 19th century, with the explosion (pardon the phrase) in chemistry. I’d guess b/w 1815 and 1840….
freshacconci

Can you get this for just successfully eating pancakes?
Anonymous

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan
Anonymous

I would have thought you need to start at the TCP/IP stack and work your way up.e
dabdiputs

you’re starting at sudo? i thought you said full stack! how about folks that aren’t scared of xor gates? heck, what about silicon mining?
lysdexia

I think a badge with Dick VanDyke in full-on one-man-band regalia might have been better than the pancakes.

or, to paraphrase the Burgermeister in “Piker’s Peak”:

“Fur less dan Fifty Sousand Kronkites, I vill build you your OWN SCHMATTERHORN.”
Avram / Moderator

Dabdiputs @3, “silicon mining”? For the real full stack, you should start with a universe full of hydrogen and a tunable gravitational constant.
johnnyaction

Not only does this apply to me but I also love pancakes!

I’d get one but I’m unemployed right now.
r38y

@diamondbach TWSS

From wikipedia: “Beginning with Type C, all merit badges have been made with a diameter of 1 1/2″ (38 mm)”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_merit_badges_(Boy_Scouts_of_America)
Anonymous

Only geeks would complain about merit badge criteria
Bas

Proud to be one.