justajoe

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by justajoe 16y ago
Awesome!
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by justajoe 16y ago
That's a cool idea. I wonder if technology firms actually ever take a contract like that.
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by justajoe 16y ago
Very good read. Thank you.
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by justajoe 16y ago
Warning and cold hard reality I'm afraid. Still would be awesome to at least give it a try and see what I learn.
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by justajoe 16y ago
Depressing but true. My experience is that a company would rather assemble a team of low level business people to power through raw data or cobbled together observations for weeks rather than pull a developer off of doing CSS tweaks on the
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by justajoe 16y ago
Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I firmly believe a good platform could be custom built in a short amount of time and allow the business to realize the value of their data months or even years earlier than would happen go
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by justajoe 16y ago
That's true. I'll try and nail down that quote if/when I decide to leave.
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by justajoe 16y ago
Good thoughts. To answer your main thoughts, maintaining custom reports on a generic platform is itself a major cost. I agree I'd love the repeat business but I think my approach is dead simple enough that I could easily hand it off to exis
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by justajoe 16y ago
Yeah, that is a difficult cat to let out of the bag. I'm high enough in the company that voicing that I think my personal success is going to be found elsewhere is going to be a hard break no matter what. That said, a few weeks later I coul
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by justajoe 16y ago
True, that is a good place to start. Every company I've had serious contact with has this problem, but the list of companies where I have a good high level contact to pitch this idea is somewhat small. But I agree, people I know is the plac
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