warren_s

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by warren_s 16y ago
Grades are for college, but ethics are for life.
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by warren_s 16y ago
Part of the reason many niche markets exist is due to a need for domain knowledge, be it about the product itself, or the particular community you are servicing. I would argue that most niche players have either or both of these attributes,
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Get Up Early(two-shay.com)
4 points by warren_s 16y ago|2 comments
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by warren_s 16y ago
I work remotely, and have done so since 2004. I've worked for and with distributed companies and people all over the place, including the US, Slovakia, Singapore, New Zealand, and closer to home here in Australia. Where I live is classified
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NASA JPL can't estimate the cost of software accurately - how can you?(ceh.nasa.gov)
4 points by warren_s 16y ago|1 comments
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by warren_s 16y ago
Why would you not just say 10-20 hours then? If you know that you're going to wear any overrun costs, you owe it to yourself to give the estimate based on the worst case, NOT the average case. Edit: If you think that 20 is a real outlier,
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by warren_s 16y ago
How are you "forced" to swallow costs, unless you're contractually bound to deliver in 10-12 hours? If your client wants an estimate, by all means, give them a non-binding estimate. If you find yourself over-running your estimates, then it'
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by warren_s 16y ago
I know it sounds trite, but if you can't afford to walk away from a project, you probably shouldn't be contracting to begin with. I say this from hard experience, the jobs I've taken against my better instincts are the ones that have bitten
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by warren_s 16y ago
AND a wife. First (and most importantly) of all, you need to convince your partner it's the right option. It's easy enough to talk about "geo-arbitrage" (or whatever Tim Ferris calls it) when you're single and unattached - it's another thin
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by warren_s 16y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't believe stuff should be down-voted just because it doesn't fit into the prevailing opinion, I'm just saying that I don't take it personally when it happens.
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by warren_s 16y ago
I agree about the PG-worship or whatever you want to call it. I preferred to absent myself from here for a while after it got real bad (to the point of the first article commonly being a 2-3 year old essay that had bubbled to the top AGAIN)
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by warren_s 16y ago
Currently desksnear.me is focused on casual, short-term coworking/office sharing, but we're definitely interested in finding a way to connect startups who are looking to share a space on a longer-term basis.
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by warren_s 16y ago
This was partly out of necessity. I'm 32, I don't have the capacity to work all night like I did 10 years ago! Anyone who tells you that an extra 4 or 5 hours rubbish code is better than 4-5 hours sleep is dreaming. If there's one thing I'v
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by warren_s 16y ago
Well, look at it this way: you've got about 50 weeks to practice for the next one. Also, I think you will learn far more in a project like this as part of a team.
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by warren_s 16y ago
This is not a bad idea. You should check out the pluginaweek project, it's a similar idea afaik.
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Rails Rumble Retrospective - DesksNear.me(blog.desksnear.me)
31 points by warren_s 16y ago|7 comments
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by warren_s 16y ago
Currently, it does, but we are discussing/planning the ability to add locations you don't own in a later release.
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by warren_s 16y ago
It's because we're from Australia :)
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by warren_s 16y ago
I blame Google!