commonsense

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by commonsense 17y ago
> $10k might very well buy the next facebook Get the fuck out of here. The amount of engineering the founders put into facebook far outpaces $10k. You're living in a fantasy land.
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by commonsense 17y ago
I might be crazy but I swear I didn't see that they addressed everyone of my concerns... wtf?
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by commonsense 17y ago
> separates the concerns of presentation and logic WHAT? The explicit purpose of this is to combine the presentation (HTML) and logic (PHP) layers.
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by commonsense 17y ago
> getting enough consulting work to pay the bills "Consulting" does not just pay the bills. You're thinking of freelancing for dipshit entrepreneurs who think $10k will buy them the next facebook.
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by commonsense 17y ago
> Is it possible that people are doing "consulting" work for <$50/hr Ding Ding Ding. Real consulting starts at $100/hr and has no cap on effective rate. One month of this should pay one person's bare-bones living expenses for at l
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by commonsense 17y ago
In my opinion this "fuzzy" separation is exactly what frameworks like Django (and many existing PHP MVC frameworks) tries to avoid - they specifically disallow things like arithmetic in their templating language for this reason. As soon as
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by commonsense 17y ago
The separation of presentation and logic. Anyone who's spent the 1990s coding Perl CGI will tell you just how big of a step backward this is.
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by commonsense 17y ago
Looks like women created a cycle that men are abusing. As a reforming beta I hope it's true. As a member of civilization I hope it's not. :(
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by commonsense 17y ago
Très grandes boobies.
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by commonsense 17y ago
> Could you please elaborate on that bit? No. Learn something very few other people know and it will explain itself.
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by commonsense 17y ago
> There's a lot of competition for most positions Don't go for most positions. If you're a run-of-the-mill developer, of course you'll get shit wages. Learn something unique. Something that takes effort to learn. > I can't tell y
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by commonsense 17y ago
> always try to have a new one in the queue I would take it one step further. Always have at least two active contracts at any given time. Real leverage.
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by commonsense 17y ago
> grossing $65k-$75k That's my fucking point! Remember bartenders get paid in cash. And they're free to spend that tax-free cash with a MASSIVE homie discount when they go out to bars and restaurants and clubs and other establishments
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by commonsense 17y ago
Enterprise search. But I have a degree in Economics. Think of it this way. Look at a company's overall profit margins - the profit they are making off of your labor / work should fall within this ballpark. If it's not, you're being rippe
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by commonsense 17y ago
There are multiple business models. Witness: 1. They take % of base first year salary on W2 - their incentives are aligned with yours. A good deal. 2. They take % of base hourly rate - their incentives are also aligned with yours. A good
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by commonsense 17y ago
You're assuming that I don't have other clients. That's the #1 difference between someone who makes money, and someone who works at the mercy of their employers. > 1. Sure, but bartenders have people skills No they don't. They serve d
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by commonsense 17y ago
The first step to asking for more money is to save enough to be able to do so.