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The only reason to hire the majority of that IT "talent" was the cheaper rates, not some outstanding brilliant achievments or skills. I think the guy is lobbying the interests of those bodyshops, that make tons of money selling developers from other countries. Also how many H1B holders actually get "postgraduate US education"? Not so many, I am afraid.

I think in a typical firm very few people would refuse to give their passwords... most of us would give it with a "sure, no problems, you are welcome" smile :)

Mate, "liberal arts" is not a subject, trust me, you do have liberal arts in India :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts

edit:link added

I second that.

Never do unknown amount of work for a fixed amount of money. Forget about "good guys" and "friends". You either charge them per hour or (if fixed job) control the contract with detailed requirements. You deliver that - you get paid. Charge per milestone. Split new features/changed requirements and your bugs. Charge more for new features. Always emphasize the fact it is not a bug, even if you are willing to do it for free. NEVER do life-time free maintenance of the project - set and meet the deadlines.

ALWAYS CHARGE.

People who can not organize and manage the process of development properly are deserved to be charged to the maximum extent.

Charge, charge, charge!

The article is NOT accurate. I am a happy owner of Dell laptop with Vista - and the guy insulted those two things :)

Seriously, I think its a matter of personal preferences.I am using my dell/vista 10-14 hours a day, restart maybe once a week/fortnight and have problems once in a while,

But hey, I am a developer myself, I know the process of software development too well to complain about anything sofware/hardware related. It's just the way it is.

And I think it's a bit lame to expect something that guarantees you flowless experience whatever you do. A computer is a bit more complex than a calculator. It gives you more power and more freedom and eventually more ways to break things.

1. FAR manager (this one tops them all, can do also SSH/FTP stuff, text editing, archiving etc)

2. Notepad++

3. Firefox

4. skype

5. eclipse

6. the bat

7. adobe photoshop

Nowadays a good developer on a contract can earn more than his full-time manager. And less stress, and less responsibilities, and also different projects and different people. Yes, some corps do not treat contractors well, so, well - look for another contract.

Management? Only for really good money and interesting project with people I love to work with.

"I'm back to hacking in C, since it's the still only way to ship portable programs."

Scrolled to the bottom, found that line and thought the article doesn't worth my time :)

Yes, smells bs, thats what the comment says:

This article is a HOAX, the messenger, Frank Engelsman is a NON existing Dutch Private Investigator from a NON existing company called 'Ultrascan' in Amsterdam, this company is NOT registired at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. Mr Engelsman uses the Internet for his investigations.

Thanks a lot for the info, I can't believe I just bought two applications I always wanted and never could afford for 10 bucks!

So what do they prefer? I haven't come across a better product so far

Capitalism happens when the factors of production (land/capital) can be private, not necesserily owned by the goverment, "business" or "customer" are really irrelevant to the economic system :)

I think that the reason in "Users were very aggressive in reducing their user counts, and our average selling price became very small - less than $10/month" is that I think their average account (like mine) wouldn't benefit from using the service at any price above ~10-15 dollars. Most of software they provide is free, hosting is cheap, I don't see any value to upgrade/pay more at that point. At a price above 20 bucks with more than 10 users, I would switch to a VPS/dedicated server (30-70 bucks) or a internal server, which is also a good investment.

It’s not about Java. If there were no consultancies to hire, the management would not be able to hide its incompetency and immature, stupid and strategically wrong decisions on many levels.

The article is a bit ..... naive?? :)

I think when they are telling you a story, even a boring and a stupid one it's okay, but the problem with Es is that very often you have to listen to their "mental" process, how ideas are emerging in their brains... now that's really boring :) "I don't care! Stop talking!" Just give me the answer or final thought

How about joining that startup?

I am not sure buddy, but it would be nice to see how it fits or replaces(?) the traditional approach from a high level perspective :)

Nihao! Good application, however I would like to see more instruction/tutorial how it works, since it's asking me to draw, but I am not sure what to draw, since I don't know that symbol and I would like to learn it.

ps/ I am interested in learning Chinese, however I am not sure I would pay at that point... Need to see incentives/success stories.

Good luck guys!

I reckon people who buy SUN hardware will never-ever run their app on GAE for too many reason.

I do agree however there is nothing wrong in omitting core classes, I think SUN started it with idea of lightweight client java a while ago :) And such an initiative should really have come from SUN many years ago, giving java developers cheap hosting.

I don't think it's a "loss". Every new account is an asset for them, and they paid 5 dollars to "buy" accounts without actually giving cash to account owners (as you mentioned). However, unless they have assets to cover this "deferred liability", that would be a fraud. And they had access to money to cover it. So it's not a case of desperate startup with no resources, I am afraid :)

If you have nothing to lose, that means you have "nothing". Having "nothing" probably doesn't give you enough resources to do anything at all, right? There are always opportunity costs anyway.

And... the article says paypal lost ~170 millions while "willing to invest millions of dollars to acquire new customers"

I wouldn't call it "nothing" ;)

Thanks a lot for your feedback, 3pt14159! Very practical advice, I would definitely start working on a new, better "selling" landing page. The idea of hiring someone to help with a blog is also good, however I think it might be costly for me at the moment... If you don't mind me asking, how much those guys charge? I understand there is a huge difference if I give my text to proof-read or order original content... Maybe some rough figure... Thanks!

edited: oops, i think you just added Oceania.

Thanks a lot, simonk, I will look into this idea.

ps/ I didnt intend to "spam", really. It's just an attempt to get feedback from the community I highly respect and value. Anyway, point taken, thanks! :)