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by fat0wl 13y ago
Hmm... but it's kindof scary that it's supposedly a currency but it's not really in practical use. From Wikipedia: Speculators have been attracted to Bitcoin, fueling volatility and price swings. As of July 2013, the use of
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Are there any success stories of people who have done this? How easy is it to buy/sell? I heard something like "a mass sale would trash the price" so why hasn't that already occurred?
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah but where is all this demand coming from? Do people really think it will just keep going up without a crash? Personally I wouldn't pay $600 for something that someone paid $5 for in recent memory. It's like buying a stock du
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Do these numbers really mean anything? Not being sarcastic, this is a legitimate question. When people talk about Bitcoin it sounds like unicorns. Can you really just buy & sell & turn a profit? How does a currency inflate so much i
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Eh I'm sorry I just don't buy it. Without a maintenance contract, they could never win the argument that you were required to perform maintenance. And freelancers/consultants/employees-in-general have very little liabili
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by fat0wl 13y ago
AHAHAHahaha >I am going to [country people think is still in the stone age even though it as Western as can be, Vietnam for example] for a year and will only bring my iPad Mini and a pair of trousers
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I work for corporations through a consulting firm. Most won't let you deal with them directly. But I get a paycheck every 2 weeks, I can't really see them being able to take that away from me retroactively... But trust me the corp
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Heh right on I actually thought of that flexibility / throw them a bone bit after I already posted. I think that's the abstract bit, is that these things need to be negotiated in real-time for it to make any sense. If you find you
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Hmmm my gut says A. When you give a quote it sets up a reasonable expectation and even if you go over-budget clients usually understand if you don't deviate by too much. With B you have to pull the trigger on it all-at-once so I feel l
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh thanks for your vote of confidence... I've been getting a lot of flack on this thread for apparently having a controversial view but it's something I've reached through years of freelance in NYC & long-term contract w
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Not to sound confrontational but I think you have quite a few misunderstandings about the software industry and at-will employment. Never have I ever seen any situation where an engineer is beholden to a client without having signed a lon
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yes this is the business world exactly as I've experienced it. Specifically, #2-4. Handshake deals are great for people who are generally sane and trying to pick up momentum. People advise you lock everything down 100% but they don&#x2
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Eh, I appreciate the effort that is being put into this argument but the reality of it is that it's not for me. If I have to drive an hour to see my client or send a lot of things back & forth in the mail it's really just time
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah it's not like I'd use a threat like "I'll disconnect all your accounts!" but if they have some EC2 instance they don't understand how to operate it does give you some leverage since they will be needing so
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by fat0wl 13y ago
all good advice. I've actually had issues working with larger clients because they try to give all-inclusive project prices. For one I fulfilled it and weaseled into off-contract hourly rate and that actually worked out much much bette
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Hmm I'm sorry to hear that. :-/ But if they brought a civil suit they would win easily, no? That's what I really meant by that line. My father is a lawyer & every time I bring up something like that to him he laughs. &quo
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Just throwing this out there since I know the common wisdom is to "have a contract, duh". I have a few clients who basically put me on a retainer, then I send them a bill. If you give an hourly rate + an estimate clients seem to b
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by fat0wl 13y ago
If they put it in a programming/design portfolio I'd be pissed otherwise it's not such a big deal. But they should leave your credits in instead of stripping them out... I hope employers are aware of this stuff though. Would
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yes totally down with username reputation IF one chooses that path... i like HN setup for example, may not stick around on a site where there are totally anon comments. But that said, if people want it it should exist. The reason I say leav
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea they were fun to look at if you were looking for a possible laugh but really -- what do you expect from a single public chronological thread on a (possibly dumb to begin with) video viewed by millions? if they were so desperate to give
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I think anonymity on the internet is a great thing. It's a place where you can socialize and share ideas with strangers without having to give them your name/address/home phone #. You can even start honest, more controversial
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by fat0wl 13y ago
IMHO vendor lock-in is anything that makes part of your work process specific to a given vendor. The harder it is to move from one vendor to another, the deeper you are "locked in". And as a point of interest, I think these days i
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yea I feel you on that but on Heroku I feel like "Every service I add is a per dyno credit card charge that is about to be multiplied by the number of hours in a month". :( I prefer the Amazon model because you can stick these all
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Heh this is awesome. Anything that avoids a round-trip to server usually is much easier to implement quickly in admin forms that use PaaS app servers...
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Woah, interesting stuff. thanks
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by fat0wl 13y ago
How is this not true? It absolutely IS vendor lock-in, just in a slightly less sinister form. If you add 5 services & then to switch hosts it's not another git push. You have to re-configure each of the services. If you'd done
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by fat0wl 13y ago
If you listen closely you can hear the sound of an army of devteams uploading DB exports to Amazon.... & it would be louder if the rest could figure out where to put the custom DB URL parameter ;D
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I wasn't calling Heroku a monolith because they're a huge company -- it's because they suck you in & then youre forever stuck in their web of services. I bet they start bleeding a lot of money now that there is an easy-to
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by fat0wl 13y ago
hey who downvoted this without replying?! Last time I badmouthed Heroku on here I got a reply from one of their employees asking me to fill out support tickets for errors I was getting in their apps...... O_o they're watching.
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yea I was using MySQL on RDS just to escape the Heroku monolith. Funny that Heroku announced a new Postgres pricing model that is VERY expensive compared to old setup ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712570 ) just in t

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