Iftheshoefits

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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
It isn't worth the time or effort to do so. I tried it out (elance) a couple of years ago as a worker. My impression of it is that basically it's a place for two kinds of employer: 1) the "I have this idea, code it up for me
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
It's about 35 days too long from first contact, in my opinion, outside any legitimate logistical concerns (e.g. traveling from out of state).
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
You're assuming that there is an equitable distribution of power, authority and responsibility, or that management is interested in mutual understanding and cooperation. That is often not the case. In fact, my experience is that manage
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
Do you have any evidence of this "cooling effect?"
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
Yeah, but that team of solid systems/backend developers would exist whether these companies paid a horde of "reboot button mashers" a pittance or a (smaller) horde of solid application code programmers a lot more. So in the e
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
It's especially amusing considering that actual "merit" is usually the last thing I think of when I see people at the "tip top of success" like Ballmer. Very few of these people did much more to merit their success
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
I had a manager who believed that such metrics were the only true measure of performance. This same manager also believed that CUDA on a VM (which is itself on a server hosting numerous other VMs, and the bare-bones minimum graphics card--s
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
None of what you wrote is an argument for banning users from running servers on their Fiber accounts. In fact, it's almost insultingly paternalistic if that is in fact the view Google (or any other ISP) takes.
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
Of course the set of things that generate passive income is not restricted to the affiliate element only. It includes things like writing an eBook, developing an App for desktop/mobile/web, etc., that one doesn't intend to ma
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
Well, the simplest way is to toss a website up with some affiliate links. Eventually you'll get a few hits, at least. Technically, then, you will have earned some passive income, albeit not a lot. To make it big, though, relies mainly
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
Language and distance barriers are costs to outsourcing those folks. I don't care how skilled a developer is, or which direction the work is going (i.e. whether it's a US startup seeking to exploit, er, employ an Eastern European
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by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
I'd prefer an intelligent asshole over an unintelligent...anything else just about. One thing I've learned about myself in my 30-some years on this earth is that I just can't stomach the company of people less intelligent tha