... oh and learn to do something other than just tech, it opens your perspective quite a bit, and allows you to understand problems much better (and vice-versa for non-techies!).
If you can be empathetic with your customers, they'll contact you for anything and everything, and have no problem paying your price, as long as you're reasonable and do quality work. Don't gouge, and understand that the costs you give them come off of their bottom line, same as yours if you need stuff done. Understand that, and so will they. Nobody works for free and small business owners generally respect that.
The odd greedy asshole here and there? Fuck 'em. Unless they're extremely valuable to you in the long run as a customer requiring constant updates/maintenance, then you should tolerate them, but only to a point. Let them find out on their own what they get for what they want to pay and happily accept their business when it all comes crashing down. No need to gouge them out of spite either, all but a few of them will have understood how the tech world can be.
My old employer charged $100/hour for most work, 9-10 years ago, and people were willing and ready to pay it because he would take the time to walk people through the work, and explain preventative measures so they don't have to come back in a couple weeks with similar issues. Everyone wins, and he's still as busy as ever today, serving a fairly small population. Good service counts!
...you would think people's day to day interactions with their phone assistants would get people to quickly understand things are still fledgling, but apparently not.
Thing is, most people also assume big corps or big gov DOES have AI that is in fact competent through all the shit the media and the likes are spewing and that it's only a matter of time before we're all slaves.
Trying to label your position is in and of itself, useless.
You do you; and work towards that. Ignore folks who take it upon themselves to find a label for every fucking thing out there. They're useless in the grand scheme of things and need to be ignored.
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... oh and learn to do something other than just tech, it opens your perspective quite a bit, and allows you to understand problems much better (and vice-versa for non-techies!).
If you can be empathetic with your customers, they'll contact you for anything and everything, and have no problem paying your price, as long as you're reasonable and do quality work. Don't gouge, and understand that the costs you give them come off of their bottom line, same as yours if you need stuff done. Understand that, and so will they. Nobody works for free and small business owners generally respect that.
The odd greedy asshole here and there? Fuck 'em. Unless they're extremely valuable to you in the long run as a customer requiring constant updates/maintenance, then you should tolerate them, but only to a point. Let them find out on their own what they get for what they want to pay and happily accept their business when it all comes crashing down. No need to gouge them out of spite either, all but a few of them will have understood how the tech world can be.
My old employer charged $100/hour for most work, 9-10 years ago, and people were willing and ready to pay it because he would take the time to walk people through the work, and explain preventative measures so they don't have to come back in a couple weeks with similar issues. Everyone wins, and he's still as busy as ever today, serving a fairly small population. Good service counts!
Only if you apply enough lube.
Politics aside; this is still front-page news about people not knowing how to wash their hands. Front. Page. News. Let alone Slashdot.
???
Where are you going to get the chips? eBay?
Craigslist.
Joke's on you, then.
Bonus bonus points if you bother following the saying "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
Dumbass.
Insensitive clods!
"You behind the bike shed! Stand still lad-y!"
They were already like that.
These are the types of folks who do anything to be better than others.
https://media.giphy.com/media/...
Yaz, stop it. You're being too much of a badass.
... and it leads to a meat grinder.
You assume they have mind reading devices at the front door? If you walk in and glamour over a specific car, then yeah, you're fucked.
Yeah but then you don't actually end up buying a car...?
"But they'll all be dead soon........... fucking kangaroos."
https://media.giphy.com/media/...
...you would think people's day to day interactions with their phone assistants would get people to quickly understand things are still fledgling, but apparently not.
Thing is, most people also assume big corps or big gov DOES have AI that is in fact competent through all the shit the media and the likes are spewing and that it's only a matter of time before we're all slaves.
That must be the best use of self-driving cars I've heard so far.
in parts of the world through programs like mandatory slick driving and obstacle avoidance courses, or it becoming easier to lose a license.
Holy fuck I wish we had that here in Canada... idiots driving down the highway on icy roads like it's the 15th of July...
"Ok take a nap.... Zen fire zee missilez!!"
They're after something.
Like another reason to blame violence on video games?
There's much more efficient ways than all-out warfare. Any AI capable of "learning war" is certainly capable of knowing better. Cmon now.
and liter of coke
Liter is French for give me some fucking cola before I break those fucking lips!
Trying to label your position is in and of itself, useless.
You do you; and work towards that.
Ignore folks who take it upon themselves to find a label for every fucking thing out there. They're useless in the grand scheme of things and need to be ignored.
Margerinalized? Pasturized?