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Comment #48361688
Location: Detroit, MI USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Negotiable Technologies: Web, specifically PHP; Linux support and basic admin Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/ d/14…
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Comment #43826633
Still trying to make my CMS a thing: https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/SeleneCMS https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/SeleneCMSBundle It's a PHP application running in Symfony. All th…
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Ask HN: What Happened to PHP Jobs?
Used to be I would find a ton of PHP jobs on a Who's Hiring post, or in job searches. But I have started noticing that the need for PHP has all but disappeared. I know it has to st…
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Comment #42924691
There are some serious attempts at removing the car addiction. The qLine rail goes down Woodward avenue providing a rather nice alternative to the bus systems, and the I have heard…
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Comment #42924643
I used to roam that city in my youth some twenty years ago. And if you told me then it would eventually be what it is today, I would have laughed in your face. I'm impressed with h…
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Comment #42076789
My thought is that this will be taken on by the same people who create low-effort WordPress plugins and charge high dollar amounts for them. Create something super-low-effort, does…
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Comment #39947445
I was hired to design and build a loan platform from scratch. The company that hired me was a marketing agency that build WordPress and Magento sites, not scratch built platforms. …
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Comment #37865144
I wanted to put together a CMS that would be programmer friendly, so I built https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/SeleneCMSBundle that works with Symfony PHP projects. I have a skelet…
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Comment #37156365
I started a CMS bundle for Symfony projects, and released it. It still needs more work, and people to actually use it. https://github.com/SeleneSoftware/seleneCMSBundle And a skele…
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Comment #34553832
I wrote an amazing feature for a client's website. Saw how awesome it was going to be, wrote it so we could use it on other websites. Even pitched it to my boss on how to pitch it …
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Ask HN: Is GPT the new thing for tech business to grab a hold of?
I saw it with the term "The Cloud." then it happened with "Blockchain." Then "AI Powered." Now I'm starting to see "AI Powered" getting taken by the different GPT terms. Are people…
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Comment #32504743
Putting aside the HP bad discussions, they've had a tank laser printer on the market for a few years now. A few of them, actually. I know because I had to sell this crap. It used a…
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Comment #32327394
> I believe ageism is real. I agree, but I would also like to point out a different form of the ageism that I see all the time in my line of work. I'm in tech retail sales. My stor…
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Comment #32224309
I follow a few general learning videos, some of them cover seemingly random, but interesting, topics. But I have my favorites, and here they are. - Technology Connections - Somebod…
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Comment #31586125
Location: Detroit, MI USA Remote: Hybrid Willing To Relocate: Negotiable Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Linux, Go Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-marshall-9268a8222/ Emai…
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Ask HN: When Is a Project Too Old?
When working on a project, I have been finding tools that have a last modified date of some significant time, usually a year or more. There are some projects that have a last relea…
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Comment #31040185
Piggyback to this, wasn't it Steve Jobs who said something about how the users don't know what they want or need?
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Comment #30542665
A simple problem with adopting P2P streaming of videos is more in a logistical sphere than a technical. Often in a YouTube video and Twitch stream, there is a sponsor who is paying…
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Comment #30322592
Blockchain technologies are great when few people use them, are dangerous when many people use them, and are utterly dangerous and stop being decentralized when nearly everyone use…
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Comment #30322566
I will agree to a point. "Micro" isn't the way we should go, more of a "Macro" approach. Instead of a small service that handles one function, give me a medium service that handles…
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Comment #29901534
The big problem with his argument against PHP being a template engine is that it hasn't been developed with that in mind for quite some time. I think it's just a legacy feature to …
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Comment #29901491
I agree with the sentiment. I've been in a Magento and WordPress shop where I had to implement badly written plugins that my boss payed money for. I've seen people come out of code…
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Comment #29802986
I get it. It totally sucks. I live in a mobile home, work a job that doesn't pay nearly enough, and used to work jobs that did. I have a family member who married a doctor and they…
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Ask HN: Why the disparity between SciFi UI's and what we have in use?
Watching science fiction shows/movies/games/comics/etc, the user interfaces are rather magnificent. But they rarely use elements from what people actually use. And in actual user i…