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by ccajas 9y ago
I've been into SFF PCs and computing for a while and, being disappointed by a lot of small cases in the market, have taken to learning how to build my own case. There is actually a lot of this going on in the niche, with some custom ca
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Ask HN: How to get around ageism and perceived incompetence?
26 points by ccajas 9y ago|12 comments
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by ccajas 9y ago
SquareSpace can feel nice for people setting up a brand new site. Problem I found is that I had to migrate a site away from their old host into something more user-friendly, but most of the SquareSpace templates looked nothing like the corp
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Ask HN: How can we help reduce work exploitation in tech?
2 points by ccajas 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Job hunt-related statistics on programmers?
2 points by ccajas 10y ago|0 comments
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by ccajas 10y ago
Irony, thy name is PHP. Your name means "hypertext pre-processor" and was conceptualized first and foremost to be a web dev language. But you're now often being turned down in the web dev world in favor of general-purpose lan
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by ccajas 10y ago
> the fact that it had been treated as kids language with spaghetti code for a long time Try using PHP with a framework. krapp 1388 days ago [-] Most of the arguments I've heard against PHP seem to amount to 'PHP is doesn'
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Ask HN: Anyone here got into a big co. after only working for small agencies?
1 points by ccajas 10y ago|0 comments
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by ccajas 10y ago
This is something that also interests me, as a web developer with a mostly LAMP background. I live in Chicago and getting tired of just doing web dev for small business clients. I have hobby experience with C# (3+ years, built several nativ
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by ccajas 10y ago
I have a similar problem, so you're not alone. I've been in the game professionally since late 2007. But those 10 years to now are only calendar years. In reality, my experience is closer to 7 years, because I have unemployment ga
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by ccajas 10y ago
I haven't learned or found a use for writing tests. It seems like it only comes into its own with large code bases, where I don't have much experience in. It's not really something that was talked about or used at my previous
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by ccajas 10y ago
Thanks, I'm gonna try out Mocha. I think it was briefly mentioned for a coding test I once did. I have worked for two web agencies (we do mostly CMS re-skins and custom websites for small clients) but TDD isn't really pushed there
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Ask HN: Getting started with TDD as a lone developer (without a job)?
1 points by ccajas 10y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: How can I come up with numerical metrics for my work experience?
2 points by ccajas 10y ago|1 comments
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by ccajas 10y ago
I also don't believe that the hiring process can be made 100% anonymously, with a total lack of bias. That would be impossible. You have to meet with the candidate in person at some point, and get to see what they look like and learn