Re:Would you hire this developer?
by Tichy on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @04:44PM
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"We only work with devlopers who are willing to donate 20000$ to charity"????
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Re:Would you hire this developer?
by danielharan on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @07:57PM
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$20k? charity?
I have projects with 20-100 LOC up on github, for my own convenience. It costs me nothing to make these public if I can't sell them - that's not charity.
Your time costs something.
Not when I'm at home. :)
I'm not some piece of machinery that can work 24/7 so there are certain externalities that don't quite match up to accounting. Goodwill perhaps?
I get paid a certain salary whether I show up for 30 or 60 hours. It doesn't matter so long as the work gets done. If you're a contractor, do you take your time while your asleep and deduct it as a business cost?
If you contribute to Open Source Software, you probably do it in a state in which you would have been able to work instead.
Even if you are at home, your time costs money. Opportunity costs.