Freelancer advert WTFs
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@kt_ said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@wharrgarbl said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@Jaloopa freelancer seemed pointless to me because I can't compete with Indians neither on price nor on quality
FTFY :D
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...That's neither fixed nor better. Simply appending "(n)or quality" would have worked better than anything involving "neither". But even using that general format, the negative is already present from "can't", so it should be either-or, not neither-nor. And either/neither should come after "on", not before it.
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@dreikin said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kt_ said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@wharrgarbl said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@Jaloopa freelancer seemed pointless to me because I can't compete with Indians neither on price nor on quality
FTFY :D
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...That's neither fixed nor better. Simply appending "(n)or quality" would have worked better than anything involving "neither". But even using that general format, the negative is already present from "can't", so it should be either-or, not neither-nor. And either/neither should come after "on", not before it.
Then fix it. It’s open source. I accept pull requests.
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@kt_ I don't share this bias that indians would be produce lower quality just because they are cheap.
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@scholrlea said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
You seem to have much more faith in the sanity of your typical wannabee businesscritter than is probably warranted.
Actually I don't [and I agree with the rest of your post that I quoted above]..
But I want to have hope, foolish and futile hope, I know; but without hope.....
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@jarry Thing is, Ling's Cars is supposed to look like that...
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@gordonjcp And lings cars doesn't have text that changes before I finish reading and popups.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kt_ I don't share this bias that indians would be produce lower quality just because they are cheap.
You are right, they don't produce shit because they are cheap. They are cheap because they produce shit. The good ones already have jobs that pay according to their skill.
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@kian The good ones are still usually cheaper than the american bad ones.
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@sockpuppet7 The very good ones cost almost the same wherever. They're sufficiently in demand and mobile that their current country of occupation has almost no bearing on their earning potential.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
And lings cars doesn't have text that changes before I finish reading and popups.
Not this week it doesn't.
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@dkf said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@sockpuppet7 The very good ones cost almost the same wherever. They're sufficiently in demand and mobile that their current country of occupation has almost no bearing on their earning potential.
Bullshit.
That's not true even for soccer players, were we have the best in the world, and they only make EU-like money when they move out of the country.
INB4: some joke about the 7x1 world cup game
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@djls45 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@lucas1 AIUI, most, if not all, aimbots would have to have that.
I'd say it depends on the shooter. In old Command & Conquer: Renegade, your aiming reticle turns from yellow red when pointed at an enemy, so one could probably make a "triggerbot" that reads one pixel on the screen and automatically clicks whenever it suddenly becomes a lot less green... And this, without touching the game code or memory at all.
Edit: Now that I think of it, Warhammer 40000: Space Marine's lascannon (which acts as sniper rifle) has a similar visual feedback...
And if you're truly hardcore, you implement this triggerbot in a dedicated hardware module (e.g. something that taps into the HDMI stream to read the pixel, and poses as a generic USB mouse to send the clicks) to prevent it being detected by RAM scans! (of course, you'll be detected by your frame-perfect shots).
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@Medinoc That's technically not an aimbot, though. It's more of a shooting assistant. The player would still have to find and aim at targets.
Edit: Renegade was the bomb! The Red Alert mod for it is pretty good, too, but I couldn't ever find enough people to have a proper skirmish. It's too bad EA scrapped the follow-up(s).
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@medinoc said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
of course, you'll be detected by your frame-perfect shots
ISTM you'd be likely to get a lot of minor-damage (arm, leg, shoulder) shots rather than critical (head, chest) shots if it fires the moment the reticle changes color. I suppose you could develop the habit of always trying to aim at head-hight, but it seems to me that you'd still get a lot of less-than-perfect shots.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kt_ I don't share this bias that indians would be produce lower quality just because they are cheap.
I said that @Jaloopa couldn’t produce better quality than Indians.
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@kt_ said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kt_ I don't share this bias that indians would be produce lower quality just because they are cheap.
I said that @Jaloopa couldn’t produce better quality than Indians.
The amount of sleep I've had recently, I doubt I could produce better code than an infinite number of monkeys
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@jaloopa said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kt_ said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kt_ I don't share this bias that indians would be produce lower quality just because they are cheap.
I said that @Jaloopa couldn’t produce better quality than Indians.
The amount of sleep I've had recently, I doubt I could produce better code than an infinite number of monkeys
Yeah, #MeToo. I mean, I just realized I think this was a jab at @fbmac or one of his sock puppets and not you!
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@tsaukpaetra said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kt_ said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
I mean, I just realized I think
Exactly that.
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Status: I knew something was wrong. I didn't post the bad screenshots of things that happened in the anime I watched here. They were all pictures of the computer screens the characters were using, since I always find fictional computers fascinating. It was the best fake Windows 10 I've ever seen.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
they only make EU-like money when they move out of the country
How do you think they make the money? Oh, they get hired by someone willing to pay it. Duh.
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@dkf I think you forgot what we were arguing about.
You were arguing that the country of occupation doesn't affect the income for the "very good". You are wrong. Soccer players are a good example because we know the income of the world top, and these are way beyond just "very good".
Yes, they find somebody that wants to pay, but then they need to change their "country of occupation".
Also, I don't see it happening to people that are just "very good". But that depends of your subjective perception of "very good", so it's irrelevant. All I can say is that it's very rare, and the few people I know that moved out is still making less than the average native developer in their new country of occupation, see the complains about H1B being cheap workforce.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@dkf I think you forgot what we were arguing about.
You were arguing that the country of occupation doesn't affect the income for the "very good". You are wrong. Soccer players are a good example because we know the income of the world top, and these are way beyond just "very good".
Yes, they find somebody that wants to pay, but then they need to change their "country of occupation".
Also, I don't see it happening to people that are just "very good". But that depends of your subjective perception of "very good", so it's irrelevant. All I can say is that it's very rare, and the few people I know that moved out is still making less than the average native developer in their new country of occupation, see the complains about H1B being cheap workforce.
Someone turn off this Markov bot, finally.
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@kt_ said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@dkf I think you forgot what we were arguing about.
You were arguing that the country of occupation doesn't affect the income for the "very good". You are wrong. Soccer players are a good example because we know the income of the world top, and these are way beyond just "very good".
Yes, they find somebody that wants to pay, but then they need to change their "country of occupation".
Also, I don't see it happening to people that are just "very good". But that depends of your subjective perception of "very good", so it's irrelevant. All I can say is that it's very rare, and the few people I know that moved out is still making less than the average native developer in their new country of occupation, see the complains about H1B being cheap workforce.
Some turn off this Markov bot, finally.
Should it be chained up?
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@pie_flavor I dunno, I'll consult The MGT to find out.
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@medinoc said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
(of course, you'll be detected by your frame-perfect shots)
Use some sort of easing function to swing the crosshair onto anything that's contrasty (likely a target) with a bit of noise in how it responds, and it'll be accurate but not too accurate. Maybe.
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Develop a "crypocurreny" and a website. $15 budget
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@jaloopa I don't even leave my
chaircouchbed for $15.
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@asdf said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
And all of them found idiots who contacted them.
Unfortunately, I think someone will work with the homework one.
There are always seeker who look for easy money on freelance marketplaces.
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@jaloopa One could probably fork some existing cryptocurrency and write a half assed static website in a day.
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@jaloopa said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
Develop a "crypocurreny" and a website. $15 budget
Don't forget that experience in crypto and a strong developer background is an "Entry level" skill level.
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@dkf said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@djls45 quoted in Freelancer advert WTFs:
make unhackable software
Not a trivial task, but possible with proper digital signatures and an OS that requires a signature to be fully verified before running the code. Probably not a good idea for anything nefarious though; part of the process of signing everything binds the developer's real ID into the software (given that the OS makers tend to be a bit careful about these sorts of things at best).
Also much easier on iOS or Android.
Actually, because of the "if hacking detected format SSD" part, I'll just put a few honeypot holes in that'll trigger format action and call it a day. :P
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@jaloopa said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
C# .net Graphic User Interface | Freelancer
Software Architecture & C# Programming Projects for $2 - $8. Hi, I am looking for a full time developer than can modify existing source code. Developer must have knowledge in: - C# .Net - .Net - Assembly - Develop create graphic user interfaces (GUI) - Aut...
Up to a whole $7 per hour for someone who knows:
- C# .Net
- .Net
- Assembly
- Develop create graphic user interfaces (GUI)
- Automotive knowledge
- Engine Control Unit experience (ECU)
- Data logging sensors
- XYZ Interpolation
- Unit Formula conversions
- 2D/3D Graphing
- Plotting data
- Recording data
- Overlay recording
- Uart Hardware interfacing
This somehow reminds me of recent incident of HK government where some software vendor bid a software creation contract, then outsource it to some outsourcing company that, outsourced the task to another 3 companies and somehow managed to still have profit.
Maybe it's just how things worked.
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@cheong said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
and somehow managed to still have profit.
The question is, did they still manage to get a working product? That would be the surprising part.
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@kian said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@cheong said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
and somehow managed to still have profit.
The question is, did they still manage to get a working product? That would be the surprising part.
They got a
workingproduct.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@jaloopa One could probably fork some existing cryptocurrency and write a half assed static website in a day.
$15 for a day is still shit. It would be shit for an hour
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@dcon said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kian said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@cheong said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
and somehow managed to still have profit.
The question is, did they still manage to get a working product? That would be the surprising part.
They got a
workingproduct.No. They slipped the deadline. That's how the outsourcing is discovered. (The tender explicitly said if the vendor want to outsource the project, they have to acquire written permission from the corresponding government department, but they did not.) The department is considering banning that company from bidding other projects.
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@cheong said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@dcon said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@kian said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@cheong said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
and somehow managed to still have profit.
The question is, did they still manage to get a working product? That would be the surprising part.
They got a
workingproduct.No. They slipped the deadline. That's how the outsourcing is discovered. (The tender explicitly said if the vendor want to outsource the project, they have to acquire written permission from the corresponding government department, but they did not.) The department is considering banning that company from bidding other projects.
I never said it was a completed project!
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@cheong said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
@jaloopa said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
Software Architecture & C# Programming Projects for $2 - $8. Hi, I am looking for a full time developer than can modify existing source code. Developer must have knowledge in: - C# .Net - .Net - Assembly - Develop create graphic user interfaces (GUI) - Aut...
Up to a whole $7 per hour for someone who knows:
- C# .Net
- .Net
- Assembly
- Develop create graphic user interfaces (GUI)
- Automotive knowledge
- Engine Control Unit experience (ECU)
- Data logging sensors
- XYZ Interpolation
- Unit Formula conversions
- 2D/3D Graphing
- Plotting data
- Recording data
- Overlay recording
- Uart Hardware interfacing
This somehow reminds me of recent incident of HK government where some software vendor bid a software creation contract, then outsource it to some outsourcing company that, outsourced the task to another 3 companies and somehow managed to still have profit.
Maybe it's just how things worked.
Maybe they should talk to the gunsmiths of Ibiza, Spain. They seem to know a lot about how to distribute mas-production of IP infringement over several companies.
(I don't have any personal experience with firearms - weird visions and divine gessa aside, I wouldn't trust myself not to shoot myself, intentionally or accidentally - but I have some passing interest in both the technology and the history of weapons in general, especially regarding their impact on tactics. The story of the Ruby caught my attention a few months ago, because it is more than a bit odd and amusing.)
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@cheong said in Freelancer advert WTFs:
The department is considering banning that company from bidding other projects.
Then they just go bust and form a new company that is totally different, honest, despite having all the same people involved. More effective is banning any company with directors who were on the board of that company that failed the contract.
