Not sure. I wasn't hugely encouraged by his inability to use possessive pronouns, but that's the grammar fascist in me talking.

Reiss wrote: This can be tricky as few clients will let you plug into their networks. If you accept their AV install they are normally happy. Defence work can be trickky though, depending on what it is. They have some ultra secure networks. Reiss wrote: Try and work from your office once a week, rather that on site all the time. Yeah, dont act like an employee, thats the key. ============================== Nothing to say.

AspDotNetDev wrote: Joel wrote: you're wasting money by having $100/hour programmers do work that can be done by $30/hour testers You guys make $100/hour? And I only made $8-$12/hour when I was a tester. Joel lives in NYC, so his costs are on the high side compared to most other places. However I also strongly suspect he's looking at fully qualified costs after all the overhead costs are factored in. Slap something like a 2x multiplier on for rent/utilities/management/hr/it support/bean counters, and all the other supporting expenses that start to become needed once you grow beyond the startup stage and $100/hour doesn't seem unreasonable for a middle/upper level dev. Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

That's probably the reason. Perhaps you should have opened the discussion by offering to demonstrate various protection schemes available to mitigate the risk. Will Rogers never met me.