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Ask HN: Is PHP Dead or Useless?

I see a lot of negative comments from people online and very little interest from people about PHP. I'm not sure what the deal is and i'm a little confused. There're more hypes around Python, Java, Go than PHP, even though PHP is very good language on it's own.I really love and enjoy PHP, i've been building amazing apps in PHP and using the Laravel framework too. What i also like about PHP is...

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Re:Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable? on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:36AM (#21026499)
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Ask HN: Issues with Callrail API, Custom Fields Like Salesforce

I work with Callrail.com alot, been using them for about 8 months now, built several apps with the API and it seems to be fine.The issue i'm having with Callrail is custom fields. I want to be able to create a new custom field in Callrail, like Salesforce, then pass data to this custom field from the API, also get data from this custom field from Callrail using the API.Is anyone else having...

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Re:Ask HN: Overworked Developer. 70 hours a week on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:12PM (#20100414)
That's true.
Re:Ask HN: Overworked Developer. 70 hours a week on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:12PM (#20100408)
Thanks. Appreciate your comment. You made a very good point.
Re:Ask HN: Overworked Developer. 70 hours a week on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:11PM (#20100406)
Me and my colleague doing the same thing, both 70 hours sometimes, we've had issues and bugs in code we write, because it's affecting our productivity.

No matter how much we explain to our boss, the founder, it looks like we're complaining. He does not understand you need space and time to do a good job.

I wonder if there're other founders like this, who don't understand or try to empathize with engineers, and they give ridiculous timelines for project completion.

Do very successful founders have some technical background? I wonder, because if he was an engineer, he would know the amount of time it'll take to work on a project and do a good job.

Re:Ask HN: Overworked Developer. 70 hours a week on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:07PM (#20100384)
lol. You're right. Point taken.

Ask HN: Overworked Developer. 70 hours a week

I joined a startup not too long ago, there're 2 of us working as engineers there, but we're overworked. Sometimes i have to work about 70 hours a week, the pay is okay, but not as much as it could be, it's lower than industry standard, and i don't have equity either. Also communication with the founder is a challenge.Has anyone been in this same situation before? How did you handle it?I've...

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