troels

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by troels 9y ago
Part of the problem, I suppose, is that it's very hard to figure out what value an employee contributes with. Making salaries transparent is perhaps rational, but it only gets you that far. If the other half was a solved issue, I don&#
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by troels 9y ago
Well. I'll call it idiomatic form to use OO style in Ruby, which the article (and my examples) were written in. Considering the interpreted and managed-memory model of the language runtime, it is utterly pointless to worry about a few
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by troels 9y ago
I recognise that your tongue and cheek may be in close proximity here, but care to elaborate?
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by troels 9y ago
When dealing with business processes, I feel that the evented nature of a formal fsm can be a bit off-putting. I have on several occasions used a batch-processing approach, that maintains state in a persistent record, giving many of the sam
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by troels 9y ago
In the db, it's ok to store as decimal, since it's internally an integer. However, unless your language/framework has built-in support for money, you should use a library to deal with it (Or build one). Specifically, you do N
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by troels 9y ago
OTOH if he had given you his private key, surely he would have failed the sysadm test right there.
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by troels 9y ago
I wouldn't charge different rates. The way I look at it, when I'm charging an hourly rate, the client is paying for my time. What value the client derives from that time isn't really relevant to the cost. Or put another way.
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by troels 9y ago
I would say this formula only derives the minimum reasonable rate as a freelancer. It basically ends up netting you the same as you would in a salaried job (adjusted for risks/expenses). But I would say you should be making at least a
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by troels 9y ago
You'll get a cool accent though.
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by troels 9y ago
Me neither. And cost-of-living doesn't seem that low all together. House prices are almost comparable with northern europe.
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by troels 9y ago
If it turns out that there is no life there, maybe we should try to transplant some?
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by troels 10y ago
Good point. Wouldn't you usually do this on a server and then expose a sane api to the ios app? Who consumes SOAP directly in ios?
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by troels 10y ago
I haven't. I just raised the price when I took a new contract. It's the same game as when you're full time employed, except you get to play it 1-2 times a year.
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by troels 10y ago
Freelance is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I've done short jobs in the past, but don't really like that. Now I'm doing longer contracts, with full time engagement and I like it a lot more. After doin
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by troels 10y ago
Housing would make a difference in high cost-of-living areas, such as SF, but the others are probably rounding errors with what is, after all, fairly high salaries.
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by troels 10y ago
How about casperjs?
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by troels 10y ago
Certainly. The nordic model is basically that the labour market is kept quite liberal, to the benefit of companies, but this is balanced by a strong social security net. This is in contrast to how things work in most of the rest of Europe,
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by troels 10y ago
Not that you're wrong, but this is just to remind you that the EU isn't a country. Especially worker-laws varies quite a bit between countries. Surprising perhaps, the nordic countries have very liberal worker-laws, compared to ot
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by troels 10y ago
I think this is quite right. But this is even true if the racism is unfounded. The mere illusion that some ethnic groups are low-contributing will weaken the cohesion of society. So in this backwards way, racism becomes a self-fulfilling pr
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by troels 10y ago
You're missing an opening tag.
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by troels 10y ago
Did you read the article?
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by troels 10y ago
I'm a developer and I studied history. Not art history, mind you, but I did take a course in medieval fresco paintings. I never really completed my degree, because I got too busy with a startup, but I got most way through. I also took
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by troels 10y ago
Some other country? I'm fairly sure all countries have developers relying on github.
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by troels 10y ago
I'll just leave this here: * Growing a Language, by Guy Steele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
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by troels 10y ago
That's exactly the point though. A bank wouldn't be able to collect.
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by troels 10y ago
By that measure, I can guarantee you that they don't meet the standard. Banks are rather conservative.
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by troels 10y ago
There are two differences though. One being that the equity is highly illiquid. The other (and more important) being that there is no market validation of the valuation.
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by troels 10y ago
Perhaps that was a bit snarky, but then let's also agree that the article is severely oversimplifying things. I guess I just react with annoyance when I see the press do that. I didn't mean to belittle the accomplishment of the fo
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by troels 10y ago
No. Then I'd be a millionaire.
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by troels 10y ago
So. If I value a company, of which I own 100%, at 1B, does that make me a billionaire?

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