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Not so secret Startups that get funded and fail to pay their contractors

Posted by Dash1909 on Thursday April 02, 2020 @11:44AM
from the self-post dept.

Lets just get this out there, judgements are basically worthless. They're nearly impossible to enforce, they're easy to get around and they are primarily a cost for the person who is already out a paycheck.What are some of your horror stories about companies that have failed to pay?I'll go first: I've had a engineering group stiff me $750 and my code is still in production now.I've had a...

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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:24PM (#16351003)

I read all of this, made a 8 paragraph long retort about the stupidity of backend devs in this thread, then deleted it.

The reality is, if you don't currently serve a website 1,000,000 people want to use, just pick some terrible server side piece of crap and call it good.

If you want 1,000,000+ people to use your website, you better learn that a dynamic user experience is expected, and delivered with eloquent javascript and design.