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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a con... by Roark66 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @05:25AM (#21729491)
It is cool when that happens, but it is extremely important to define the scope of work very well when it does. As if the client had a different expectation for the time frame don't be surprised if they then continue bothering you about details of integration of your feature with the rest of their project for a month.
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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a con... by prox on Saturday December 07, 2019 @07:47AM (#21729997)
Yeah, also be careful before you say yes; I had a similar opportunity, insanely good money , but when I interviewed a few devs who’d work for them they had a terrible rep for getting out of scope, moving the goalposts and communicating badly.
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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a con... by D-Coder on Saturday December 07, 2019 @12:27PM (#21731418)
I worked at a minicomputer manufacture (okay, Prime Computer). Software enhancements large enough to need a proposal always included a section "Non-goals of this change."

This section laid out the things that might sound like they are related but would not be part of the enhancement. For example, a speed-up of the filesystem might have a non-goal of adding new file types.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a con... by FpUser on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:39AM (#21730790)
Nah. Somehow I've always managed to put enough on paper to not get nailed on things like you've just mentioned.
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