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Seems you have a choice to make. If you find yourself with enough work, simply stand by your estimate and let them either agree or go elsewhere. If you are short enough you are willing to risk being wrong then accept the counter offer.
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Way back (in 1996) I was the new guy in a software shop.
Graeme, one of the Directors, said "Robert, we have great new project for you to lead. Visual Basic, right up your alley, large budget, big multinational. The deal is all signed - fixed price contract. Dave will tell you all about it."
Dave, apparently, came up with the fixed price quote. The fixed price covered about 6 man-months at the then rate for developers.
Dave showed me his spec document, about 70 pages. It appeared to be a series of style notes for Win Forms. After listening to Dave for a while I said: "Dave - how many input forms are there in this system?".
"I don't know", says Dave, "you can figure that out when you design the system.".
"Dave, how did you come up with a fixed price for this system if you don't know what it does?".
"Oh", says Dave, smiling. "It doesn't really matter. We've got a huge budget, AND ... it's going to be written in VB which is really fast and easy!".
At this point I was thinking to myself: "Dave must be a total VB hacker with no real world smarts. I need to let him know that what seems really easy for him may not be for ordinary folk".
"So Dave", I said, "how much VB have you done?".
"Oh", says Dave, "none at all. But I've heard that it's really easy".
And yes, I did quit that company not long after ...
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Wow, is he still in business?  
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No - went under the next year. They had several projects run in the same manner.
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Also:
The client company really was a seriously big multi-national.
One of their "smart young men of the future", with a freshly minted MBA, was the reason our company was chosen - apparently against the advice of his seniors.
When the project crashed and burned (which it did) they sent him manage a two man office in Western China.
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Hello all,
Is there any free and easy to use software under the sun that would allow a group of people (let's say non techy neighbors) to share data, complaints, problems, ask for meetings, calendar, to send messages between them...
I've even though on creating a facebook group but this is a little bit... well... 
PS: I've not searched for anything but I've abandoned before trying I even don't know what to search...
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It's time to create a SharePoint site for your community (just kidding) 
Have you tried Slack [^]? I am using it for my team communication / file sharing, it is very useful and works just fine. Don't know about the calendar support, but rest will work just fine.
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Whats App group... 
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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HobbyProggy wrote: Whats App group
:thud: :thud: :thud:
BTW, you can not share 'data' over it.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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But pictures ! 
if(this.signature != "")
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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Rohan Leuva wrote: BTW, you can not share 'data' over it.
You could encode data in a picture format
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Is that the same place you can get medical advice?
WhatsApp Doc?
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WhatsApp Therapist would be an idea too
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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Don't want them to have my cell phone... they know the door I live in... that's enough. 
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Google Calendar.
Have not explored all features; but should suffice, I guess. Works in tandem with Gmail (Google Docs also?).
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I'll check it. Thank you! 
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I think you might be moving into the realm of wechat[^] and whatsapp[^].
Or maybe something simpler (nothing to install), like yahoo groups[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No cell phone number for them... so only the third option would be ok.
I'll check it Mark, thank you!
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Why not just set up a website (on one of the free hosting servers) and use phpBB[^] - it doesn't need any software, they can use it from anythign with a browser, and it'll be familiar to anyone who visits forums at all.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Probably this would be the best thing, but I don't have time and who knows how much time will I live here... it should be something without a bit of maintenance.
but as always a good suggestion OG!
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Don't have time? Half hour set up at the most and only then if you want to define the topics etc. After that you really don't need to touch it at all.
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Do you want to do it for me?
Please, remember to prepare manuals for everyone, troubleshooting...
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Well why did you bother asking if you weren't actually prepared to do anything? (Actually, if this is your attitude, why did they ask you in the first place?)
It is by far the simplest, most robust, forum option available and in all the years I've used it (for various online sports simulation sites) I've never needed to do anything to it once it was set up. As for the users, if they can email they have more than enough of a skill base to operate it without the need for anything approaching a manual.
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Jeez,
Nobody asked me to do anything, I have seen a problem and I asked here if there is something free that could help, of course I was thinking on something else you could not know that...
I'm simply tired to see papers hanging everywhere and if something free, already done and working would work I would propose them to use that, but no, I'm not prepared to give technical support, I'm not prepared to maintain anything... Something like "google calendar" look much more interesting to me by now... Imagine that... people hear Google and doesn't run... try to tell them they'll have to use phpBB and see what happen.
I can see you are novice here in CP land, but put attention to the icons at the beginning of the posts... the one with a paper and a smiling face means joke.
I guess that if you would have to make a robot to go 10 mm to the right at a certain speed (which takes less than 10 seconds to be done) it would take you a little bit more time, at least to find out how to start with it, find manuals and so... To me that phpBB is the same thing...
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Someone down here in NZ created a web service called "Neighbourly". It provides posting of requests for help, watchdog alerts and giveaways. I get a daily summary of activity for my neighbourhood only. If I want to join in the discussion, I can at my leisure. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find similar services elsewhere.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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