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They aren't based on his original comment.

Completely agree. The help in my local walmart is horrific. I have a running joke with my g/f that I feel like my IQ drops everytime I go in Walmart. As aforementioned - Amazon mak…

I don't think so.

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I've used Godaddy a number of times for LAMP-stack applications (I'm not totally sold on them). I'm looking to downgrade my linode vps to shared hosting on another platform - no ne…

What if they refuse to make revisions?

Appreciate this feedback - thanks.

I found a startup on Craigslist that I've been doing freelance work for, for about a week now. I just got paid last week but now the startup wont sign my contract listing things li…

I'm developing an android app to detect spam phone numbers, does anyone know of a curated or crowd-sourced list of spam phone numbers that are available to the public? (I cannot st…

For freelancers... Do you specify your hourly rate upon being asked (early on in process), or do you say you set a fixed budget (based on a proposal) for new clients? I've read tha…

Pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

I'm trying to decide between these two companies: Linode vs Digital Ocean for a new VPS. My needs are: potentially heavy CPU, and heavy memory usage. I'm using a Amazon EC2 (Micro)…

I concur, I feel like this or any other situation to bring out true emotion is what is needed.

I've been meaning to ask this on here and wondered what your thoughts were on this. I live (currently) on the east coast, but visited the west coast (SF to get to the point). After…

I'm looking to move from the northeast US to San Francisco - I'm totally pumped. My background is primarily in development and application security - what are the best sites to use…

I've talked to 30-40 recruiters over the past few months about various jobs in IT. I wondered why so many companies use 3rd party recruiters as opposed to in-house recruiters? Is i…

I've been working on an IT-Sec company for some 6 months now, solo founding it. I recently met a guy at a networking event who advises startups - we met 1:1 for coffee, and then he…

There seems to be an abundant number of vulnerability scanners out there for web applications and I'm wondering of the market potential left for new vulnerability scanners with som…

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Fsk - do you think this is what happened here to me? "If I write the spec for free, I know he'll then just shop the spec around on freelance sites, and I wasted my time"

I would do this, but I knew this guy for a few years prior. Its not like a random person off elance or something

Thank you both for your response. Yeah, I mentioned 25% would need to be paid upfront before I begin coding.

I'm new(er) to freelancing. I just had a personal contact (known him about 1.5 years now - met at network event) he reached out to me about a really cool software project he needed…

I quit my job 6 months back to set out on my own doing my own startup idea. This idea hasn't panned out quite the way I thought it would. How have you or would you convey that your…

Why dont you just build something with your knowledge (a fun side project) - forget the MS and taking a code course. You can't learn the in's and out's of developing in a language …