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Unfortunately in the realm of machine learning, quantity does not equate quality.

Olympic weightlifting is just the name for a discipline which incorporates a specific set of barbell excercises. It's injury rate is indeed extremely low (From Hamill, B. “Relative…

I made a little file archiving tool for Windows, because I wanted to be able to archive stuff and find it again quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wimDNTZ8

Check out indiehackers.com there's a ton of case stories you might find interesting.

How about just travelling a month's time first, before deciding on a year? Go to south America, SE Asia or something, check it out and relax. It'll cost a month extra of rent, but …

Do you use a Google api or do you send http request and scrape the response html? As I understand the gogle search api got deprecated some years back. I am a few days from my lapto…

Why would you consider R&D to be the only expansion expense?

Extremely interesting application. I googled it and found a PC Mag review from 1994 with a funny passage: "We did a direct import of a 1000 record database from both ACT! And Organ…

"Both are signs of inexperience." Case of pot calling the kettle black methinks.

I wanted to upvote but accidentally downvoted.

Start with consulting agencies. That's companies that acts like brokers between independent consultants / contractors and companies. Later on, you can get business from LinkedIn, m…

econsultancy.com most likely have some studies and reports on it.

Fully agree. Nationality alone isn't a sure fire indicator of quality. I find that on average there is a higher success rate with eastern europe / russia vendors, especially when t…

And he never returned? That's terrible. I had similar experiences during Maidan especially, but it's (mostly) back to business as usual by now.

You should try other outsourcing destinations. Large timezone differences are indeed a hurdle, and culture differences is always underestimated. Add to that the general ineptitude …

If you try again, try to see if you can get a client with a decent sized mailing list. Warming up is usually done with progressively larger sendouts. So you'd start with maybe 500 …

Outsourcing has worked for me and my clients for 10 years or so. The main aspects of making it work is vendor selection, local manager with outsourcing experience and proper choice…

What country are you in?

OP, I don't know if you are reading the comments here but in case you do: Don't get discouraged so quickly. The reason this is happening is as the blurb from the MS postmaster help…

Why would you even post job listings and ask people to apply, if you think no good developers apply for jobs?

This is incredibly accurate, and applies equally well to contracting in other roles than as a developer.

High-end contracting within not-so-common software and / or specific business domains. The contracts are often very long (some many years) and the rates are sufficiently high to ge…

The serious clients who have the money you are looking for, are not going to hire a random guy in Thailand based on a forum comment. At your suggested rate, these clients will be a…

The problem here was not with outsourcing as a discipline, it was with lack of experience in outsourcing. The lessons learned in the post are typical of first-time outsourcing atte…