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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) on Saturday May 20, 2017 @08:42AM (#14382117)
Graham predicted Slack (email replacement) would be big before Slack existed (launched Aug 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)#History)
Re:Ask HN: Taking a junior SWE job at around 7 years? on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @05:16PM (#14151861)
Hit me up on [twitter](https://www.twitter.com/davidsilvasmith) or [email](mailto:[email protected]) I'm curious to learn more about what you are looking for.
how'd you like Phoenix and Elixir?

I just did a hello world this week.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017) on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:15PM (#13770845)
SPLT | Full Stack Developer | Detroit, MI | onsite | Full Time | http://splt.io/jobs

Highly ambitious entrepreneurial spirited developers will learn a lot and have a big impact here.

Re:GitHub Enterprise SQL Injection on Sunday January 08, 2017 @08:09AM (#13349552)
I imagine some ORMs don't have this so people can do order by computed columns like "order by assets - liabilities"

To your point it probably makes sense to have an order method that verifies column names and an order_raw method that takes a string so the caller understands the risk, while protecting the usual case.

Re:General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:35AM (#6553421)
I know HTML and CSS and tried out the product. I found it so fun I wanted to go through all the lessons, plus I learned some new HTML 5 tricks I had glossed over.