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gte910h
17y ago
If you're asking in %'s, you're likely not asking for enough :oD
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gte910h
17y ago
ORLY? Then tell that to my current flash only performing client how you easily add the flex libraries to his project. Oh wait, you can't. Seriously, they're not the same thing. Flex is a toolkit that compiles to swf but its not flash.
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gte910h
17y ago
First off, flex is not flash. Do not confuse the two. Flex is the fast, just works, flash is the pretty. Secondly, the reason webby people don't like it is that they can't scrape it, tie it in seamlessly, etc. The reason it may be a good i
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gte910h
17y ago
Don't ask for percentages. Ask for a flat amount. They don't pay you in %'s, they pay you in dollars. Point this out to them if they try to point out the percentage. Say X is the rate advertised for any of these places. I'm not looking, but
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gte910h
17y ago
I second jquery in action
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gte910h
17y ago
Visual basic CAN look nice. Its just the vast quantity of it doesn't. You are picking the people you're programming with when you pick a language. Lots of people do very dirty dirty things in perl, and while those exist in Ruby and Python a
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gte910h
17y ago
Uh no. Perl is horrible. It basically showed us that python/ruby languages were possible, but is horrible, and lots of legacy code it in is often horrible.
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gte910h
17y ago
Ruby is cooler, python is cleaner. Rails is the bomb, except when you need to scale, or something is wrong. Python by far has more modules, and ties into C easiler (and C++ via weave).
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gte910h
17y ago
My response: Okay bob, I understand you have a problem with them. But here is what's going to happen here: You're going to stop doing this tonight. And we're going to talk it over tomorrow with the people you think you have a conflict over.
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gte910h
17y ago
Tell them to use the python plugin to SPSS to analyze things they already know. Use it to learn to do things like pull data off websites, etc. (SPSS is a statistical package used highly in economics and biological sciences)