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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: you have to have some a big spare to start with...
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: The problem is that when you alone you not only a developer, but a designer, a manager and sales-representative at the same time, but there is only 24 hours in a day...
However, one $90/hr job is worth a lot more than three $30/hr jobs, even if you only spend 1/3 of the time on the $90/hr job. The point being, you make the same amount of money, but you have 2/3'rds more free time to do other things.
And that is the key, IMO, to a successful consulting business -- to charge enough to pay the bills, taxes, save some money, and have time to do the name-branding sales and marketing.
Marc
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You are right about a running business, however you can not charge $90 at the very beginning or no-one will hire you...You have to build your reputation as one worth of $90, until then you have to have some backup...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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$90 doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Have you ever looked at the hourly rate of a big consulting company... one where you don't have any idea who is actually doing your work? $90 would be ridiculously low.
On the other hand, as an individual, your consulting rate better be at least double your rate as an employee to account for benefits you don't have through the employer. Otherwise, you are selling very short... HR spends a lot more per employee than the salary.
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Those are all excellent points. Good post!
Marc
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Microsoft and Xamarin are looking to broaden community involvement with the .NET Foundation, the group charged with overseeing a number of open-sourced .NET-related technologies. Openness: they has it
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The question is: who will read community suggestion? Microsoft support personnel?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Good question. In that case, they'll be about as good as the round file. 
TTFN - Kent
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Heh. Mary Jo's getting old. But then again, so am I.
Marc
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An LLVM for decompilation, Snowman's source code will be released soon The bad news? You get C++
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Even worst - you get C!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Gawd, I'd rather read the assembly code than some horrendous C output. C is bad enough, but without function and variable names to give a clue as to what's going on, I personally consider the assembly code to be much more readable!
Marc
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Yeah. I'm expecting the only real use for this might be to get out of those, "That contractor left us with an EXE and no source" situations.
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: without function and variable names
Potentially not if you start with a debug build executable. I started at a company some years ago and discovered they had never done a release build and their product was going out as debug build.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: Potentially not if you start with a debug build executable.
Is that true for Linux .o or executable files, as well, that they have a debug build mode that includes symbols? I mean, with regards to the GCC compiler options?
Marc
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pwasser wrote: their product was going out as debug build
Reminds me of an intergration test done with a big player in the healthcare IT market several years ago.
Suddenly a "debug assertion failed" message popped up.
"I actually expected this test to be done with a version released to customers."
"Yes, that's the correct version."
"But that debug assertion... It means a debug version!"
"We release a debug build to our customers."
"But with C++, you'll also have to ship the C++ debug dlls. And they must not be delivered to customers."
"Well, [company name] has a special agreement with Microsoft."
If you are big enough, there is no need to worry about your bad practices.
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The firm says the credentials were stolen from other services and just happen to work — sometimes — on the victims’ Dropbox accounts as well. Still, couldn't hurt to change your password (again)
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The fact is that the number of passwords you should memorize is pretty small, and there is no need of teaching users how to choose good passwords. Everyone knows what a good password looks like, we just can't memorize unique, strong passwords, for every single on-line service out there. Right, my new password everywhere: "horse battery staple INcorrect"
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Thanks! *dials into Kent's online banking...* 
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I am undone!  Curse you, password article person!
TTFN - Kent
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Wut?...there's only 10 dollars in there?...it's some kind of reverse honey trap scam to catch hackers!!! *throws memory sticks in microwave, launches safe delete wiping program*
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yeah I'm not buyin' it. the kid's credentials are "I'm totally in school for this."
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On October 13 1994, it was announced that the “Netscape network navigator” browser would be made available to download by anyone, initially as a public beta. So, there are probably people in the workforce younger than the 'commercial' Web
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I wish I was one of them...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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