On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, João Pais wrote:
Not that I'm expecting to become rich with the paypal button
BTW I tried to get paid for a contract by PayPal and this was the single
most expensive fees I ever got in a money transfer, by very far. Next
time, I'm gonna just be very patient and get a real paper cheque be sent
over the Atlantic by snail-mail and have it cashed in a proper
institution. So even if Desjardins (the cooperative bank of Québec) tells
me they need to "freeze" the funds for 7 days or even 14 days, in any
case, it's still worth more respect than PayPal. This is not the fault of
my employer either, as neither of us could imagine those humongous fees at
all. I don't know how it differs for smaller payments. What is your
experience ?
(I'm sure it won't even make up for the time already spent working on
this),
Don't forget that you also made this for yourself (if you did ?), and that
it might have brought you lots of knowledge and experience that you are
using in your daily patching ever since. It's like the "time wasted
looking for a same bug for 40 hours"... if you take it apart, the
usefulness of the hours is much different from what the basic accounting
of it would have you believe.
but in order to work even further on this I would have to be cautious,
and hope that at some point I get the conditions to sit down, being sure
that the month's rent is covered.
I think it works better in situations of vertical integration. Sell
customised solutions built around your patch. That's how you get more
control on the financing of your patch and of your life. But I don't
really have much of a lesson to teach. It's not like I can make a real
living out of that alone either, it's more that it seems a lot more likely
than waiting for PayPal.
Joao didn't say it is a goal in itself, he just prospected a likely future.
While it is not necessary, project often (or even usually) do grow in
complexity as further work is done on them.
once again, the reply I would have written myself.
I said that, about complexity, because it seemed like a piece of the
explanation was missing.
Why won't they ? and then, why bet that it will work ?
I think he said he doesn't want to bet it will work,
Mathieu, I don't understand where you got the "why bet that it will work"
line.
Sorry, I mistakenly wrote a line that looked reverse of what I wanted to
say. I mean you can't even assume that most people wouldn't figure out
right-click Open. If there's any big incentive to do it, it takes one
knowledgeable person to show a newbie a cool thing one can do by opening
the gop, and the rest of the newbies to copy the trick from each other.
If you mean that the patch will work,
No, didn't mean that either.
any deterrent is better than no deterrent.
How can you assume that ?
Or I would have to follow each copy with a couple of handshells.
no idea what that sentence means, sorry. (what's a handshell ?)
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