Battlechest ($20) + Mists of Pandaria ($40 now, maybe $20 when WoD arrives) + Warlords of Draenor ($40) = $100. Then you will need to transfer your character to your main account unless you want to pay $15/month. This is another $25. $125 vs $60. Most people using this feature will be hard-core players whose raiding guild needs another class but doesn't want to recruit, or people who want to try out another class at max level but CBA to level it (levelling from 1-90 is still no small task, generally taking 40-50 hours unless you are one of the top levelers. Not to mention that once you've seen it 5-6 times it's a little repetitive)
It's probably not a coincidence and it's probably not the sole reason that CGI got the job. The number of layers involved in winning such a bid has a tendency to keep out favoritism and nepotism of the sort you imply. CGI is hardly a fly-by-night organization.
Consider that agile boils down to an iterative and incremental approach with much concern given to doing things the right way the first time and I think you'll see that the space program's project methodology is closer to agile than it first appears.
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There is no such thing as "good formal requirements gathering." You are right that the owner does not understand his employees' day-to-day problems...but you need to go one step further and recognize that the employees don't understand them either. They won't know what they want until they see your interpretation of what it is they think they want. Rapid development/prototyping needs to be one of your essential tools. You really need to take a look at the agile manifesto and negotiate this type of relationship in order to be successful as an independent developer. It's not the document that will win him, it's the shippable product increment he gets along with the bill.
My company develops on Macs on a work-for-hire basis. We have experience in the defense field with scientific legacy desktop applications, server-based enterprise apps, and process simulation. We charge $100/hour for development, develop using agile methods, and are extremely customer focused (redundant since I already said agile). You can do whatever you want with the code when we're done; you will own the copyright. We are quite comfortable with OSS; we rely on it for our dev tools and the frameworks we use to develop our products. We're not a huge firm like CA or SAIC; you'll deal directly with the lead developer and project manager. Since we develop with agile, if you don't like what you see after 30-60 days, you can stop us, pay us for what we've done, and find another team. You get to keep the code we've already written.
Hibernate brought you a host of bugs b/c you didn't understand it. ORM is a notoriously complex domain. There is nothing better than Hibernate for ORM. JPA is a subset of what Hibernate offers - without Hibernate there would have been no JPA.
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More sea ice does increase albedo and thus reduce infrared absorption
I don't think albedo matters if the sea ice is floating in an area that is currently hidden from the sun.
Not to mention that you need the same amount of energy to stop.
emacs is missing nothing except a good text editor.
FTFY
Battlechest includes Cataclysm now.
Battlechest ($20) + Mists of Pandaria ($40 now, maybe $20 when WoD arrives) + Warlords of Draenor ($40) = $100. Then you will need to transfer your character to your main account unless you want to pay $15/month. This is another $25. $125 vs $60. Most people using this feature will be hard-core players whose raiding guild needs another class but doesn't want to recruit, or people who want to try out another class at max level but CBA to level it (levelling from 1-90 is still no small task, generally taking 40-50 hours unless you are one of the top levelers. Not to mention that once you've seen it 5-6 times it's a little repetitive)
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It's probably not a coincidence and it's probably not the sole reason that CGI got the job. The number of layers involved in winning such a bid has a tendency to keep out favoritism and nepotism of the sort you imply. CGI is hardly a fly-by-night organization.
Consider that agile boils down to an iterative and incremental approach with much concern given to doing things the right way the first time and I think you'll see that the space program's project methodology is closer to agile than it first appears.
You were probably a hipster before it was a thing, too.
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Can we get a poll about this please? CowboyNeal? You still there?
Only if you help me get the 5 digit.
There is no such thing as "good formal requirements gathering." You are right that the owner does not understand his employees' day-to-day problems...but you need to go one step further and recognize that the employees don't understand them either. They won't know what they want until they see your interpretation of what it is they think they want. Rapid development/prototyping needs to be one of your essential tools. You really need to take a look at the agile manifesto and negotiate this type of relationship in order to be successful as an independent developer. It's not the document that will win him, it's the shippable product increment he gets along with the bill.
will software simply be a by-product of the operation of other industries?
Software only exists because someone in some industry needs it to help them do their job. It is by definition a by-product of other industries.
My company develops on Macs on a work-for-hire basis. We have experience in the defense field with scientific legacy desktop applications, server-based enterprise apps, and process simulation. We charge $100/hour for development, develop using agile methods, and are extremely customer focused (redundant since I already said agile). You can do whatever you want with the code when we're done; you will own the copyright. We are quite comfortable with OSS; we rely on it for our dev tools and the frameworks we use to develop our products. We're not a huge firm like CA or SAIC; you'll deal directly with the lead developer and project manager. Since we develop with agile, if you don't like what you see after 30-60 days, you can stop us, pay us for what we've done, and find another team. You get to keep the code we've already written.
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Try six figures.
Hibernate brought you a host of bugs b/c you didn't understand it. ORM is a notoriously complex domain. There is nothing better than Hibernate for ORM. JPA is a subset of what Hibernate offers - without Hibernate there would have been no JPA.
95% of taxpayers. Not "people."
Mod parent up, this is the only reasonable solution.
73% of Americans were once in favor of slavery too, that doesn't make it the right choice.
No, I'm new her...errrr, sorry, I thought I was someone else for a second.
You're allowed to shoot escaped convicts on sight, right?
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