If you run a successful company, you'll be getting that hourly income at some point ... It's not likely to be a todo list company though.
One Thousand Dollars an Hour
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#73There are many lawyers that have their hourly billing rate set at $1000/Hr.
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#74I think you're better off just charging per project. People are more comfortable paying $10k for some specialized help, even if it only takes 10 hours, than they are paying $1000/hour for 10 hours of work.
Something like what Paul Rand did when designing the NeXT logo. He charged $100k flat to "solve the problem" of creating a logo.
Fixed fees only work well when the client has a discrete problem that needs addressing, but in my experience those are the best projects anyway. Imagine a team of people struggling with some hard problem for 6 months and then you (because you're a specialist) solve it in 10 hours. Those are the absolute most fun things to do. Hero Projects.
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#75For that rate I'd maybe hire Simon Peyton Jones, but $1000 for iOS "optimization advice"? The market must be in a really bad place.
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#76I am unavailable this month, so for the moment my rate for new clients is one billion euro per hour.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with using Rails to run your blog? If your website is built on a given web framework, it is often more sensible to run the blog on that than to introduce a standalone blog engine.
Because you can use octopress and only have to serve static files. https://github.com/epochwolf/epochwolf.com
And you can use page caching in rails to do the same. The argument for using octopress is more that it enlarges the space of possible hosts.
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#78Sam's resume: http://assets.samsoff.es/pdf/Sam%20Soffes%20Resume.pdf This, to me, is more surprising than the rate.
That's not a resume.
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#79Also worth noting on his "hire me" page ( http://hire.samsoff.es/ ): "I prefer not to sign NDAs. If this is a requirement for you, there is a $10,000 fee to sign your NDA. You will need to sign my consulting agreement. It has confidentially agreement included." He then has a very simple work-for-hire contract that includes an NDA. There's something appealing about this approach, because reading arcane contracts while…
Is this an American speciality?
In most legal systems, confidentiality is part of hiring someone. You often sign an NDA nevertheless but its value is mostly declarational.
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#80No. Most of you do not get it at all.
It's like selling a house you built with love and live in. You do not want to actively sell it, but if someone gives you double of the market rate, then it will be foolish not to sell. That's called passive selling. I passively sell everything :-)