Prolly most of the people who would comment on it are at the show, and thus not web-connected right now (with the exception of wearable-computing ubergeeks:-).
I'm in the U.S., and will soon be looking for contractors. What do I do if I can't find programmers with the specific skills I need? Do you think it's practical to contract people in other parts of my country, whom I will never meet face-to-face? Also, how do people recommend paying the contract? It's for completion of a particular, specifiable, programming task; so should I pay a flat number of dollars for completion, or do I need to pay per hour?
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Prolly most of the people who would comment on it are at the show, and thus not web-connected right now (with the exception of wearable-computing ubergeeks :-).
I'm in the U.S., and will soon be looking for contractors. What do I do if I can't find programmers with the specific skills I need? Do you think it's practical to contract people in other parts of my country, whom I will never meet face-to-face?
Also, how do people recommend paying the contract? It's for completion of a particular, specifiable, programming task; so should I pay a flat number of dollars for completion, or do I need to pay per hour?