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Old 05-19-2010, 04:34 PM  
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Originally Posted by Varius View Post
Hopefully you learned to charge people at least half up front, or per milestone, to not waste your time without compensation again in the future.
Yes, I have learned this.

The thing is that new people with very good ideas often need someone to give them
some "working space". In other words "they don't have the big cash yet".

I try to work with some of those people. And yes, many do fail completely.
But at least they can pay something and I understand their situation.

So I did that for him and he paid zero.

So he's on the zero list.

I only have two list :

1. People
2. Zeros


Naive people think they are going to continue to go forward in the biz without
programmers. They are idiots.

The gap is closing people. In a few years, none of the "amateurs" will be around..............
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except for those that can get a programmer to put them in a position to
compete.


When people fuck their programmer they are only fucking themselves for the future.

The only thing dumber than fucking with the programmer is fucking with the billing company.


(sorry for all the "F" words in my post, that's just the way I talk. Not proud of it, but it's the reality of how I came up).
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