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Very good! Thanks Ennis.
speramus in juniperus
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Ask 'em to throw in a caravan.
Keep out of the black, and into the red
You'll get nothing in this game for two in a bed.
Holy hell - the mind is a wonderful thing
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I contract in the UK and my rates vary depending on the role. So at the moment I'm working from home so I've accepted a reduced rate but if I have to travel it all bumps up the rate.
So if I was your friend I would look at using something like CWJobs and see what the going rate is for the skill set and go from there.
If your friend is working through his own company then ensure your contract is IR35 friendly. Also, in the contract include the hours you agree to work in a week (though I'm always flexible) and include the project your working on with deliverables. Working through your own company is a tax efficient way of working, pay yourself the min salary and take out the profit in the form of dividends.
If you friend is not working through a limited company or an umbrella then be careful about your liability. What happens if your friend delivers faulty software and the client decides to take him to court?
Steve0
You can't polish a turd.
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Umm, Pick a Salary you want to live on. In the States based upon where you live that can be anywhere from 50k in small town iowa living high on the hog. To 150k in New York City barely getting by. For grins lets pick 100k Basically in the states $50 per hour is 100K a year. per hour value is 1/2 the yearly wage. Give or take. Now someone above mentioned health care, others mentioned time off, and yet no one mentioned 401k(retirement), life insurance and other expenditures you will have when doing all this yourself.
Most certainly setup a limited company of some type and bill thru that. IT will save you a ton in the long run.
I think 5k a year is low for health insurance. I would start with 15k, figure another 15k for retirement. and Just for fun throw in 20k more to take care of lots and I mean lots of incidentals. You can reread those numbers as 15% for health, 15% for retirement, and 20% for other stuff(life insurance, company insurance, driving around)
Total is 150k or 150% of what you think it will be. It will most likely be near this number. Go with it.
150k is $75 per hour. Pretty close. There you go. If you live in small town Iowa you can live really nicely on 50k(I mean nicely 3 acres of land, trips a few times a year, nice car, good schools) so that would be about $35 an hour. New York you will need at least 150k to live on minimum. But you can do everything right outside your front door.
Pick your poison but go with 1.5X more than you think you will need. Always.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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There is a great deal of competition in the UK for contracting roles.
You need to price your self so you will get a contract but not undervalue yourself. That's why I suggested that looking at CWJobs is a good idea. Work out what the competition are charging and vary your rate depending on what you can bring to the table.
Contractors tend to be paid more than perm staff (in the UK) so I assume that the OP is looking for more money and has fair idea of what they can live on.
Steve0
You can't polish a turd.
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Check out the last one[^].
speramus in juniperus
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"My Little Pony..." looks promising! I hope the book is in the stores in time for Christmas! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Stop! Hammertime! 
It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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As I read this article [^], my mind heard the music of the old song by Pink Floyd: "Hey Teacher, leave us kids alone ... we don't need no thought control ..." but all distorted like, as if it was being screamed by a bevy of coloratura sopranos being bitten by fire ants.
An appropriate frisson on the cusp of Samhain.
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Interesting last name for the author.
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No article starting "Strap-on" has ever led to something good.
speramus in juniperus
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Except possibly when reviewing Gentlemen's Special Interest videos... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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No! Don't go there! DO. NOT. GO. THERE.
speramus in juniperus
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Whew, that's a relief. I thought I was the only one who originally thought the post was rather pervy for Mr. Woodruff.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Pervy yes, but for Bill there's a looooong way to go.
speramus in juniperus
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All of Bill's posts are a sort of mental pornography.
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Yes, it's part of his charm.
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Thanks - now I've got Another Brick in the Wall[^] stuck in my head! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Better that than Rivers of Babylon.
heh.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah ad-persons would love to get a hold of data from a range of people wearing them!
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No.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: now I'm shouting me-me-me
Which is what everybody does. It's no more important than any other question.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have a niece who's in high school and is a singer as well as being interested in video. When I wrote Have Fun, Get Paid, I dedicated it to her (she doesn't know this yet) since it's all the stuff I had to learn the hard way that I wish I had known at her age.
Got my author copies in today, so now I get to send her one, which will be a surprise. This is the fun stuff. 
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