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How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me?
An anonymous reader writes "I am a biomedical researcher interested in having general-purpose, scientific programs developed and released as open source. Interface design and reusability of the code are of primary importance to me. For my purpose, Cocoa applications relying on Core Data seem to be the best way to get the job done quickly. While I have some programming experience, I have few connections to the industrial world. So my question to Slashdot readers is: how do I find someone (individual or business) to write high-quality programs? Are there reputable contractors experienced in Cocoa? What sort of rates should I expect, to use as a starting point in negotiations? Would a requirement that programs are released as open source make it more or less difficult to find someone to do the job?"
How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me?
Offerings of pizza and beer usually work.
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Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I don't think Banana Republic is quite right. John Perry Barlow, in an interview he gave about 15 years ago, described the NeXT software development contractors as "Unix Weenies by Armani."
Developers often aren't picky.
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as a biomedical researcher, you can:
1. inject them with a lethal toxin or virus that gives them 48 hours to live. you possess the antidote, but you won't give it to them until the programming is done. you may find this code to be slapdash and hurried
2. reprogram their genetic makeup so that they slowly devolve into an insect. revertion to homo sapiens status only occurs if the programming is done. their coding effort will be highly hierarchical, with independent nodes functioning in close cooperation, like a hivemind
3. surgically insert a biomechanical morphine injector directly into their spine. press the button, and give them rapturous pleasure. get them addicted, then demand they get no more fixes until the programming is done. code produced from this approach will be alternately pure genius, and pure garbage
combine #1,#2,#3. be the perfect bad guy. code will resemble naked lunch
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Often times, beer works too.
I dare you to edit video and create a tv show like I can
Don't throw a tantrum, Turtleneck. You and every other MySpace kid or freshman in your second-rate art school create "TV shows" and "movies" with Final Cut Pro.
So mister fuckface. tell me HOW you can with your shitty windows and shitty linux and extra shitty BSD capture, compost and edit a TV show or movie without making it look like a 12 year old did it in his basement
Even a 12-year old in his basement could make "artsy" movies, TV, and photos using black and white with fades and soundtracks etc. Too much talent in the Mac pool, methinks. Mac software was designed for simpletons looking to "fluff" up their inner artiste'.
I do work on my Mac that makes me money...
I do work on macs that make me money too. I buy 'em from thrift shops and wipe 'em down, then sell 'em to idiots for $1000 and use the money to buy PC's.
you wanking off all day to free porn found on google images does not impress anyone.
I don't pay extra when I shouldn't. That money you would save if you bought a comparably-equipped PC could buy you a cute Pomeranian to go along with the rest of your gayness.
post a question to this site, there are many programmers there. One will anwser you I'm sure.
Are you saying that I only need to double my development time to get a 3,000% increase in user base!?!? Where can I find this GTK+/Qt?...I want to start using them today!
Damn, for that kind of money, I'm willing to become a Qt expert. Not kidding. Please post your contact details :)
I beg to differ; I believe that you, too, are a real tool.
Just wait until he gets home from the coffee shop to reply to you. You're really gonna get it then, mister (fuckface).
Have you ever seen these programmers? Most of the time they've got more metal in their faces than in my car. It's like I always tell people, you want to attract a good programmer? Use an electromagnet.
"Just a fox, a whisper."
Dunno about TV shows, but I usually compost my manure by leaving out in a big heap, and making sure it's always moist.
What a crock of shit. Mac is nothing more than a wannabe desktop publishing platform. Real video editing is done on a real workstation, like say SGI.
1999 called and they want your troll back.
--- Justin Dearing http://www.justaprogrammer.net/ We're just programmers.
Here's how my previous job worked: We would find someone who wanted something, and charge them hourly to write it, and then give 'em a binary to which we're the copyright holder. Then that program would be a "product" that we would sell to other people in the same business. It was great for us (and not so great for them, but they didn't know better).
If you make it so that we don't have a proprietary product (developed at your expense) to keep selling over and over, then we're going to ask for more at the "charge them hourly to write it" part. (Well, either that, or you're going to do business with someone more competitive than us, who is ok with only being paid once for each unit of work.)
And to be fair, the business was actually a lot more honest than I just made it sound. And it is still a standard practice in the business (there just wasn't anymore more competitive than us). That's how things will be, until enough people like you say they're willing to pay for free software, so that it reaches critical mass and becomes the new standard.
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Find him a girl with a who likes geeks.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.