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I used to as well, until I started to refuse to do it. It truly is in the best interest of the customer to work this way, and I explain it to them. The ones that understand it and buy into this way of working are the ones I work with.
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Ask them to give you a guaranteed schedule of sales that you will hold them to. They'll say it's absurd, you can't predict that. Turns out it's the same with software dev. If you find yourself arguing about this with ma
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Almost at the end : "Yes, all this sounds like a lot of work". Exactly. And it will most probably still turn out to be wrong, because you will forget to ask some questions, and there will be things that you simply cannot foresee
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Also from Cape Town, we build mobile products (apps are part of what we do). One of our first products was a mobile game (don't want to spam it here, PM me if you want a link), and we've built many products for both local and int
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"No problem"?
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No wucking furries cunts!
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Soon to be New Zealand's most popular dating site.
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My view is a project is only a success if all stakeholders are happy at the end. To succeed, you therefore need to: 1. Know who all the stakeholders are 2. Know what they expect 3. Come up with a plan to satisfy 2 4. As you go along, and yo
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I didn't know at that stage. I don't know if it would have influenced me to not have children.
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Genetically I have a 50% chance of getting Parkinsons. My father was diagnosed earlier this year, and 2 of his 4 siblings already have it. There's a medical study being done on our family to try and identify the gene responsible, but
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As a South African, I never realised we have a few airports that are actually the closest to a large part of the Antarctic coast. I know there are flights from Chile and New Zealand to Antarctica, but none that I'm aware of from South
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I find Twitter to be second only to YouTube in comment trolls.
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>Actually some years ago a friend gave me a cell phone. Once I turned it on, and some complicated dialog came up about my reading some contract and sending money. I turned the thing off and haven't turned it back on since. You and R
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I'd go even further, and actually discuss it with them before making these changes, not just hand in the signed contract with the clear changes. Tell them : "I'm uncomfortable with this. What would make me comfortable is ...
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Also : the world wide web didn't exist yet, you couldn't just visit StackOverflow to get an answer to a problem you had. Formal course work was a great place to communicate with like minded peers and exchange ideas and learn from
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"It would be in the interest of US-Soviet relations" - in 2005?!
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The best payment apps are apps like Uber, where the payment is no longer visible, and the app adds some other value to the user. I agree that general payment apps that aim to simply replace cards don't have enough of a value propositi
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"part of the money from sponsorship goes to donation" Can you elaborate on what part, and to whom specifically?
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This makes me think : what are good ways to try and protect myself against this? How can I, as a software developer and entrepreneur leverage this to my advantage? What does this tell me about where the big opportunities will be in 3,5 and
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How about if the income is in your country of origin? Can't your side project just pay out where ever you're from? It's the Internet, websites aren't really located anywhere.
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Native mobile SDKs would be fantastic. We often have to develop mobile apps for clients where there is a need for a relational db in the cloud that the client can maintain with data. The app has to access that data to displayed, as well as
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tldr; "It will be the device of the year, because Apple. I don't know enough details to give any better reason, but hey, it's Apple".
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I suspect the problem with deploying this on a large scale to fight Malaria for example, is that mosquito breeding areas are often very large areas, and change in location due to environmental changes. This device is probably a good fit fo
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Piracy is a well known synonym for copyright infringement. I would agree with you that something like "theft" would not be a good term to use, but Piracy is spot-on.
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I sort of find it a little sad that very talented people have this god like image of someone like Steve. Without them he would have been nothing, but still he gets all the glory and fear, and they get little respect.
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I'd love to hear more about the Android team's CI tools. What do you build with? What do you test with? If you can build some kind of SaaS Android CI system, you'd probably make heaps of cash. Android CI is just enough of
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He kinda reminds me of Woz in that way. Except Woz was never seen as evil, and Bill had an evil image for a while there in the 90s and early 2000s.
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Each one of those ton of things have been solved by Apple, Samsung and BlackBerry in many of the countries Google doesn't support. They can copy what any one of these 3 did if they really wanted to help developers.
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Here in South Africa for example, it has been possible for at least 3 years to sell apps on iTunes, on Samsung Apps, and BlackBerry Apps world. So there's most probably not some major stumbling block that prevents it, as these other c
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Just curious, because other comments also mention staying as long as you can and then getting a rental : wouldn't the first part mess up your credit record so badly that you couldn't get a rental? Here in South Africa I'm pr

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