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by jarrett 16y ago
The hard part, though, is getting a good lawyer and accountant. I've worked with bad ones and good ones, and you can't always tell the difference from the outset. Many times, I've found that lawyers' and accountants' opinions on critical is
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Every developer I've met in person prefers Mac/nix for any situation in which Windows development isn't mandatory. Am I looking at a biased sample? Maybe, maybe not. I mostly operate in the web development world, but I know developers of al
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They've done a fine job of keeping the site responsive, but that's only a small part of what we normally demand from web apps. I don't fault them for spam. It's a very, very difficult problem, and since I don't have a magical solution to pr
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But does this mean, for example, that you should escape inputs yourself before passing them off to the framework, which is then ostensibly going to escape them again? I think a better approach is to verify that the framework is correct. You
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Many of the freelancers I know work primarily from referrals. I realize this is a chicken-and-egg problem, so here are a few ways to get started: - Tell all your friends and family you're freelancing. Chances are, you can find a few leads t
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I don't think many lawyers say that. You're still exposed to lawsuits from the robber's family. With lawsuits, when there's a will, there's a way.
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I don't think objects unavoidable lead beginning programmers to get lost in "architecture." My go-to language for teaching new programmers is Ruby--in part because it's my strongest language, but also because it's capable of expressing most
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The court applied the Turner test, which is very similar to the rational basis test: the plaintiff was burdened with showing that the threat of gang formation was "so remote as to render the policy arbitrary or irrational." This may strike
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I've never had a cofounder like this, but I've (almost) had freelance clients who tried to start the relationship by sending an aggressive, strongly-worded, and one-sided list of rules. (Rule 1: You shall not be paid until final delivery. R
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It may not be grandstanding if the technical cofounder believes it's in his best interest not to take 60%. Maybe s/he feels that taking more would damage company morale overall, thus harming his/her investment.
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Pre-existing contracts may be binding on someone who purchases a business. So the buyer of a web site might be bound by the TOS. Thus, a promise to customers could survive the company changing hands. (I can't speak to the particulars of thi
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The change in perspective will probably be enough to provide some positive psychological benefits, but I think doing some actual restructuring would help, as well. In most games where you level up, you get as many chances as you need. If yo
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In my experience, developers are the most passionate group of evangelists for Apple products. Cutting root access from the Mac would make it unusable for many types of developers, if not all. I don't think Apple can afford to lose that base
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Their duty to the stockholders is to do what's in the best interest of the company. It's not a breach of duty for a company to forego short-term profits if, in the management's judgement, those short-term profits can only be had by damaging
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