This story is based upon a research article, On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl, recently published by Siegfried D. Schubert, Max J. Suarez, Philip J. Pegion , Randal D. Koster, and Julio T. Bacmeister in the March 19, 2004 edition of SCIENCE Magazine.
short stack(Noun) A relatively small amount of chips relative to the stakes. short stack(Noun) An amount of chips which is far less than the average in the tournament. short stack(Noun) A player who is in possession of a short stack. short stack(Noun) Two pancakes one on top of the other, as opposed to a stack of three.
A stack is also an internal memory usage scheme that is often used for function calls and other reference frames, as opposed to a heap, which is often used for more ad hoc memory usage. When people mention a stack trace or heap dump, this refers to internal memory usage. But that's probably not it, either. When people refer to a software stack or a full stack developer, this is a reference to an approach to software architecture that views software layers (or tiers) like a stack of pancakes. If you work on a client-server application and make changes to the back end database, maintenance layer, and web client, you are working on the full stack.