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by smartbear 14y ago
If you spike, we don't care and we don't charge you extra. We only care if you're consistently significantly over the limit month over month.
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by smartbear 14y ago
Both true.
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by smartbear 14y ago
(This is the author) That's true. I was hoping to stir thought in the reader rather than provide an answer. If I had to wrap it up, I think it would be that we have to strive anyway even if it's "futile" in some sense of the word. Because
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by smartbear 15y ago
Here why I believe you're looking at it incorrectly: Suppose there's two businesses, each making exactly $10,000/mo in revenue. One charges $10/mo to 1000 active customers, the other charges $1000/mo to 10 active customers. Which business
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by smartbear 15y ago
You can't assess technical competence from coffees, only from writing code. You can't assess email communication skills from drinks, only from writing. Like in the Matrix, you don't truly know someone until you fight them.
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by smartbear 15y ago
You simply need to set expectations according to the truth. If you have 6 months of their salary banked, tell them that. If you're uncertain you can pay them, tell them and hire people who are OK with that.
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by smartbear 15y ago
Great point, well made. To counter-point, for some businesses, the cost to acquire a customer even with the efficiencies you describe is still too much. For example a consumer product that's $99 per year with 50% gross margin needs acqui
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by smartbear 15y ago
Agreed, at scale the argument isn't as powerful. Some stay true, most don't. It's more of a technique to get started.
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A Call for Strong Opinions in Software Development(softwarequalityconnection.com)
2 points by smartbear 15y ago|0 comments
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by smartbear 15y ago
Actually I was just playing on the infamous "Goto's Considered Harmful" title. (See nbashaw's comment)
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Does Pair Programming Obviate the Need for Code Review?(softwarequalityconnection.com)
5 points by smartbear 16y ago|0 comments
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by smartbear 16y ago
Doing fixed-bid is another interesting angle I didn't cover; thanks for bringing it up! It's yet another potential source of both great profitability (when you do something THEY think is hard in just 10 hours) or loss (as what you described
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by smartbear 16y ago
FYI, I find the conversation fruitful! The criticism is much appreciated, and readers will do well to hear your counter arguments. I very much agree with your points, especially that "billable hours" is not the point, that expediency or ra
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by smartbear 16y ago
I'm not talking about IBM, I'm talking about most individuals doing consulting. "Clients by and large are fine with it." --Only big companies are fine with it. If you're a web designer for local business, they would not be fine with it.
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by smartbear 16y ago
True, although I guess what I'm really saying is that, given the choice, you might pick "fantastic" in certain cases, at least in one or two areas in which it makes sense too. Obviously if you have a profitable company you are, in some sens
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by smartbear 16y ago
Their logo is a mint leaf, so...
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by smartbear 16y ago
Embarrassing! Thanks for catching it; I've made the change in the post now.
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by smartbear 16y ago
[the author] I agree with you completely! Still, I waited 4 weeks before making this post, so that's a decent amount of time. Also, I was nevertheless hoping for a "bump" that would help launch the company, and I believe most people also b
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by smartbear 16y ago
We allow our customers to use WordPress v3.0.1, which means either with OR without MU. Up to you. We're NOT limiting plugins that can be installed. We're just building a list that we'll SUPPORT.
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by smartbear 16y ago
I agree (although I'm not in the valley). It is unfair in the sense of "unfair advantage." Of course I'll exploit it -- I'd be stupid not to -- but it's unfair. This is exactly why increasingly it's hard to do a startup without teaming
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by smartbear 16y ago
You're correct! But I didn't say I'm standing the same shoes. I said I'm going to see if I can do another startup.
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by smartbear 16y ago
Do you also think Heroku is boring because it's just Ruby hosting? Taking the largest, most vibrant blogging (and now general website and for some CMS) platform on Earth and trying to not only make it awesome but contribute new features and
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by smartbear 16y ago
You obviously didn't read the article. He never said to outsource customer development. You made that up. In one of the actual examples, he had the VA simply form a list of 100 potential people he could reach out to for market research. T
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by smartbear 16y ago
Generally "leverage" means to apply a little effort/cost to get a relatively large result. That's exactly what Rob does with VA's -- applies a relatively small cost to save him a ton of time, much more so than alternatives like trying to au
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by smartbear 16y ago
Oh no reason, it could be more than one. Just a figure of speech, sort of like a Cosmo quiz. :-) Probably if you said "all of these" that's too good to be true, but surely 1-4 is normal if it's really the case.
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by smartbear 16y ago
Thanks for the good counter-points, but I'd like to disagree. :-) First, without using an nginx + fastcgi/Apache/whatever front-end it's not true that just running W3TC scales your site. I was doing that for my own blog and whenever I hit
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by smartbear 16y ago
You can do this, because there's enough good plugins that it can be supported. You're right of course that you cannot support 100% of all custom code ever written for WordPress. But it's a bit heavy-handed to conclude that therefore it c
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by smartbear 16y ago
Yup, also hardware security devices on the front end -- things like the obvious script hack signs and DoS protection.
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by smartbear 16y ago
I certainly agree with you in practice. Think of this like an Einstein thought-experiment -- it's not how you should run your life every day, but it's maybe a nice foil for thinking about such things.
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by smartbear 16y ago
In your italicized text, it was good up until "No other company is going to compete with it." The point isn't that you have no competition, but that you have enough raw material to be competitive yourself. The point isn't that you're guaran

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