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gcb0 on April 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, i...

Nope, this is like everyone doing websites in the 90's during the dotcom bubble.

All small business trying to find honest people ended up hiring someone's 12yr old cousin (trhu a spiffy LLC front) and ended up with worst-than-useless websites full of security holes and zero accessibility.

Hope those projects are all games and fart apps and not mission critical stuff. and since i have a very hard time thinking of mission critical apps, i think the world will endure.

ForHackernews on April 23, 2014 [–]

As somebody's formerly 12 year old cousin: screw you, my broken PHP was STATE OF THE ART for web dev.

gcb0 on April 24, 2014 | [–]

lol. im the same. but we learned, and here we are. most people just cashed checks and screwed, even if unintentionally, lots of folks

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