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		ZephyrBlu on Feb 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Choose Boring Technology (2015) Why do you think this occurs? It doesn't make sense that people apply for a programming job without being able to do any programming...

zingar on March 8, 2021 [–]

I think it's because they have some success with making wordpress do what they want (after a fashion), or copy and paste some Javscript. That makes them a programmer, without knowing what they don't know, even 10 years later.

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