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> "Better than 95% of the PHP jobs out there are horrible scut work for companies that don't give a shit about quality or decent development" Show me your data
by ericingram 14y ago
> "Better than 95% of the PHP jobs out there are horrible scut work for companies that don't give a shit about quality or decent development"
Show me your data? You couldn't be more wrong about the companies using PHP. The last startup I worked at in San Francisco, well funded and very successful, used PHP. I was approached by many well known names all using PHP, most of them exciting new companies working with edge technologies for practicality, which is a trait that goes great with PHP).
- TylerE 14y agoand for every startup company using php, there are 100 shitty local ad agencies knocking out brochure-ware wordpress sites.
- ericingram 14y agoSounds like a big success for Wordpress and PHP to me
- wpietri 14y agoIn the sense that McDonald's is a big success for American cuisine, sure.
- ericingram 14y agoThat's a decent analogy, since McDonald's is a huge success and a model of efficiency in business.
- wilmoore 14y agoIf more fat americans is a success, I guess that makes sense.
- anthonyb 14y ago> Show me your data? Bitter personal experience? I'm a Python dev, but figured PHP and Python would be good to add to my resume. I picked them up pretty quickly, but after working for a couple of PHP places and interviewing at many others, I swore off them and went back to Python. Also, sounds like your startup was one of the 5%, rather than the 95%.