mcdougle

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by mcdougle 13y ago
Recently, I went on vacation to the beach with some friends, and before I left I snagged some books from my father's bookshelf, one of which was "Big Bucks" by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. It's short and simple and
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by mcdougle 13y ago
(Sample Projects) -- Hey, if you wanna pay me to do a sample project and then also pay me to do the actual project, fine. I can see how that would work if the sample project is a small subset of the actual project. If you expect me to do wo
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by mcdougle 13y ago
As most people seem to right now, until the past few months I thought of Microsoft as sort of an aging giant. They had gotten lax during their monopoly, and instead of keeping up with the times they're struggling to keep up with more &
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Or better yet, wrong scope
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by mcdougle 13y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Once you get to a certain point where the core of the functionality is built and the rest seems easy and/or tedious, it might be tempting to hand that part off to someone more interested/with more time&#
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by mcdougle 13y ago
That's what I was going to say! I'm sure for most of us, programming is FUN when you're doing it for the enjoyment, the puzzle-solving aspect, and working on a project you love, isn't it? Once I'm wealthy and financ
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Very interesting. I feel like I've been seeing a major trend towards Javascript-based-everything the past few months! I wasn't sure if I should link this here, but this article really sparked a train of thought that brought me to
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by mcdougle 13y ago
No offense to any startup founders/workers here, but freelancing just sounds more appealing to me -- I'd rather be the boss than the employee, and starting a freelancing business just seems less binary (as in it's either majo
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by mcdougle 13y ago
I immediately turned that feature off the other day when they added it. Google -- I can organize my own email, thank you very much.
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by mcdougle 13y ago
That's really interesting. It sounds like an easy way to get targeted by the people who do want to track you, though. Still -- do you have any idea what he uses for that?
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by mcdougle 13y ago
There are many options for individual (as in non-group, not as in non-family) health insurance, although to avoid the hassles of what you're talking about you might have to think outside the box. A typical major medical policy will inc
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Reminds me of this: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-10-30/
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by mcdougle 13y ago
Wow, your situation sounds amazingly similar to mine. I do database integration for a large corporation -- moving data from other files and databases into one central database. Not the least bit challenging -- like you, I feel I can do the
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by mcdougle 13y ago
"absolute power corrupts absolutely." I don't know where that quote is from -- I grew up hearing it from my father.