josephby

As a benchmark, I know that University of Waterloo Computer Science and Computer Engineering Co-ops are making $60/hour for similar work. That's a good starting point. If you have any kind of portfolio, you should be able to leverage that into a higher hourly rate. In finding clients, its important not only to build a portfolio, but also to build a network that can help you find new work with interesting clients. So if you have a portfolio of two or three apps, along with a few people who are willing to serve as a reference for you, then you should be on your way.

"Going beyond the facts from the Financial Times’ report, there are several benefits to Twitter providing a liquidity release valve for employees sitting on tons of stock. First, it’s sure to make these employees happier... The ability to sell some stock means they could upgrade their lifestyle to be more in-line with their worth. Giving them this option could keep great employees from leaving the company." Why yes; because rich employees are MUCH less likely to quit their day jobs.

Who writes this stuff?

Orange knows exactly how the internet works. They’re just trying to change it for the worse.

This is the logical consequence of people moving their activities from decentralized, open services (email, IRC, and usenet) where revenues are generated (and cost incurred) at the ISP, to centralized, closed services (Facebook and twitter) where cost, revenue, and control is centralized by the platform owner.

The natural response will be for Google and Facebook to compete (or simply threaten to compete) with residential ISPs, forcing some sort of accommodation by the ISPs, and binding ISPs to the media platforms (Facebook, Google, et. al.) in ways never before seen.

Pipedrive. By a country mile. Lightweight CRM + contact management. And they have a sweet iOS app.

Transparency is an honorable goal in and of itself; that said, most people do not want to make complex trade-offs, nor do they want to own the unpopular outcomes of those decisions.

You can expect most people to acknowledge the problem - briefly - and then return to complaining about your solutions.

That might work; can either of these be configured with separate encrypt and decrypt keys?

Basically, if someone takes control of the hardware or software we're hoping that it would still be very difficult to get at the contents of the emails.

The solution doesn't have to protect against intercept-in-transit.

For example, suppose that this was implemented on a VPS on some random hosting provider, and I own all of the code on the VPS. The hosting provider could record all email traffic coming into that box, but that problem isn't in scope (and could be addressed with, say, openPGP).

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