Cottage Computer Programming

Re:Cottage Computer Programming by 10ren on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @10:21AM (#905435)

This is so much what I want to do, but I don't yet have the... gumption... to actually do it.

I also code alone, and probably my income from investments from my lifestyle software product business (about $US 460 pcm) is enough to support it. According to Wolfram, $40 pcm in 1976 is $150 pcm today, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40+in+1976+USD

I don't really know how to start (or how to be sure if I'd really like the solitude that much after a few weeks/months...)

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Re:Cottage Computer Programming by mkramlich on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:17PM (#905650)

what is 'pcm'?

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Re:Cottage Computer Programming by eru on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:32PM (#905687)

I guess "per calender month".

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Re:Cottage Computer Programming by 10ren on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:51PM (#905754)

Yes, sorry; I thought it was a standard abbreviation. Or maybe I've looked at too many rental ads. Perhaps there's a better one?

I guess "per month", "/month" and "monthly" all work well, though I'd like a shorter one. Maybe "pm" or "/m". Or perhaps convert it to years, and use "pa". I'm fussing over this a bit, but I agree with pg that in some cases, conciseness helps readability.

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Re:Cottage Computer Programming by eru on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @05:16AM (#907470)

Yes, though Paul Graham's notion of conciseness is not the number of characters, but more like the number of `symbols' or words. So `monthly' should be fine by this measure.

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