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  • D Dan Neely

    OK Your contract terms specify the application must be finished within a single billable hour.

    Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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    John M Drescher
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    :laugh: I was thinking of more like 100K billable hours.

    John

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    • D Dan Neely

      From times rac was flogged on the lounge I know there're people in Eastern Europe making good money by local standards from it. Granted their COL is probably only 10% of ours, but I'd still call them success stories. If you mean the first in a 1st world economy you might have a point. :rolleyes:

      Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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      El Corazon
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      dan neely wrote:

      If you mean the first in a 1st world economy you might have a point. Roll eyes

      I really don't feel like moving to Eastern Europe just to take a contract. :-D So I guess I am stuck in the 1st world. :)

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        meenakumar wrote:

        windows or web development?

        It all boils down to client requirement rather than personal preference.

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        • D Dan Neely

          From times rac was flogged on the lounge I know there're people in Eastern Europe making good money by local standards from it. Granted their COL is probably only 10% of ours, but I'd still call them success stories. If you mean the first in a 1st world economy you might have a point. :rolleyes:

          Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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          Nemanja Trifunovic
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          dan neely wrote:

          Granted their COL is probably only 10% of ours

          Not at all these days. For instance, Moscow and St Petersburg are both more expensive places to live than New York City. Budapest, Prague, Belgrade and other big Eastern Europe's cities are not much behind.

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          • M meenakumar

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            Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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            I can only speak for myself, but desktop seems far less stressful and more flexible than web. The last web project we did (a K2.NET workflow solution) was a pain on so many levels - none of which would have been an issue on the desktop. Then again, my idea of fun is writing plug-in code for Visual Studio in C++/WTL, so what would I know...? :rolleyes:

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              dan neely wrote:

              Granted their COL is probably only 10% of ours

              Not at all these days. For instance, Moscow and St Petersburg are both more expensive places to live than New York City. Budapest, Prague, Belgrade and other big Eastern Europe's cities are not much behind.

              Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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              Dan Neely
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              If that's not scaled to represent living expenses as a fraction of wages I'd like to see a cite, since it goes against what I've heard from, someone who was until a year or so ago, a Muscovite.

              Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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              • P Pawel Krakowiak

                dan neely wrote:

                "I'll give you $75 to make a site like ebay only better"

                I would agree, but would ask them to provide me with every single item sold on eBay, as I need this for testing.

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                Dan Neely
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                OK. But you have to buy them yourself and bill them against the total balance of the contract. We are not responsible for cost overruns on your end.

                Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                • M meenakumar

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                  Jim Crafton
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                  I think you should consider a hair cut. Then have a few oranges.

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                  • H Harvey Saayman

                    Your going to start a language war :rolleyes: I'll say go dotNet :badger:

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                    Brady Kelly
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                    Harvey Saayman wrote:

                    Your going to start a language war

                    Whose language you looking at? You mean to say you**'**re going to start a language war.

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                    • S StevenWalsh

                      Is there a LISP.NET yet? if so i choose that

                      Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks

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                      Brady Kelly
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                      There are close.

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                      • R Ravi Bhavnani

                        Drat, I thought my comment about set theory would catch the exception. /ravi

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                        :laugh:

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                        • L leonej_dt

                          Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                          Java

                          Uggghhh! Java is safer, but at the expense of expressiveness and raw power. I thought programming languages were for us people to tell computers what to do, not for computers to tell us what not to do.

                          Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                          C#

                          The same thing goes for C#.

                          If you can play The Dance of Eternity (Dream Theater), then we shall make a band.

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                          leonej_dt wrote:

                          The same thing goes for C#.

                          Nooit! :rolleyes:

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                            Web dev wins by a nose, simply by managing to stay slightly less insane than Win32/WinForms. Frankly though, i much prefer dev that doesn't consist primarily of working around bad design decisions in the platform.

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                            You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

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                            So you like Winforms over web dev? :laugh:

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                              Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

                              Aren't they somewhat of a contradictory statements.

                              No. Browser incompatibilities are a pain in the... neck, but the various designs are no where near as infuriating as that big ball of mud we call Win32. Example: There are some ugly, ugly hacks in the various JS libraries, but they have a long way to go before they match the sort of insane stuff that happens inside WinForms or MFC.

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                              You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

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                              Shog9 wrote:

                              sort of insane stuff that happens inside WinForms or MFC

                              The Win32 stuff is much more predictable; it happens every time you run that code.

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                              • Z Zhat

                                VB /runs away as fast as possible laughing...

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                                Zhat wrote:

                                VBA

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                                • D Dan Neely

                                  From times rac was flogged on the lounge I know there're people in Eastern Europe making good money by local standards from it. Granted their COL is probably only 10% of ours, but I'd still call them success stories. If you mean the first in a 1st world economy you might have a point. :rolleyes:

                                  Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                                  Brady Kelly
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                                  dan neely wrote:

                                  If you mean the first in a 1st world economy you might have a point.

                                  Hey! :mad:

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                                  • P Perspx

                                    meenakumar wrote:

                                    Which one you prefer, like or feel more challenging..

                                    I probably prefer web development, due to the (slightly) better documentation offered, but I have occasions with both where I want to throw myself out of a third storey window..

                                    meenakumar wrote:

                                    does c++ has scope still?

                                    I still code with it, although I guess some would argue that you can get more from something like C# more easily as its a higher-level language, but I'm not particularly a fan of .NET anyway. Regards, --Perspx

                                    Don't trust a computer you can't throw out a window

                                    -- Steve Wozniak

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                                    Perspx wrote:

                                    documentation

                                    Cough, splutter, cough, spit, CSS? Better documentationz? Nooit!

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                                    • A Anna Jayne Metcalfe

                                      I can only speak for myself, but desktop seems far less stressful and more flexible than web. The last web project we did (a K2.NET workflow solution) was a pain on so many levels - none of which would have been an issue on the desktop. Then again, my idea of fun is writing plug-in code for Visual Studio in C++/WTL, so what would I know...? :rolleyes:

                                      Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

                                      modified on Friday, September 19, 2008 4:48 PM

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                                      Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

                                      so what would I know...? Roll eyes

                                      :~

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                                      • B Brady Kelly

                                        leonej_dt wrote:

                                        The same thing goes for C#.

                                        Nooit! :rolleyes:

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                                        Brady Kelly wrote:

                                        leonej_dt wrote: The same thing goes for C#. Nooit!

                                        C# doesn't allow me to mess with pointers, define templates or even allocate objects in the stack. As far as I know, in C#, you can only use references in method parameters, that means you can't return a reference to a value type. When I need to do OOP, C# doesn't allow me to do multiple inheritance. And when I don't need to do OOP, C# forces me to write static classes. In other words, C# tries to tell me what to do, what to expect and how to think.

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                                        • L leonej_dt

                                          Brady Kelly wrote:

                                          leonej_dt wrote: The same thing goes for C#. Nooit!

                                          C# doesn't allow me to mess with pointers, define templates or even allocate objects in the stack. As far as I know, in C#, you can only use references in method parameters, that means you can't return a reference to a value type. When I need to do OOP, C# doesn't allow me to do multiple inheritance. And when I don't need to do OOP, C# forces me to write static classes. In other words, C# tries to tell me what to do, what to expect and how to think.

                                          If you can play The Dance of Eternity (Dream Theater), then we shall make a band.

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                                          S Senthil Kumar
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                                          leonej_dt wrote:

                                          C# doesn't allow me to mess with pointers

                                          Ever heard of unsafe code? GCHandle?

                                          leonej_dt wrote:

                                          define templates

                                          C# has generics - not quite as powerful as templates, but the idea is the same (parameterized types).

                                          leonej_dt wrote:

                                          even allocate objects in the stack

                                          struct?

                                          leonej_dt wrote:

                                          As far as I know, in C#, you can only use references in method parameters, that means you can't return a reference to a value type.

                                          Nope, you can pass structs both into and out of a method. You can optionally pass them by reference using the ref keyword.

                                          leonej_dt wrote:

                                          C# doesn't allow me to do multiple inheritance. And when I don't need to do OOP, C# forces me to write static classes.

                                          No contesting these points :)

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