Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming From : blmblm Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 04:33 pm In article , Phlip wrote: >blmblm wrote: > >>>The opportunity to control your users' experience is priceless. Don't >>>throw >>>it away just to reinforce self-pity. >> >> Talk about pushing buttons. "Control your users' experience"? Right. > >I don't think my post was that bad. Please read it again and consider the >entirety. I said the "opportunity" was priceless. That means "not to be >squandered on Flash, jiggling baloney, mazes of links" or other common web >anti-patterns. Fair enough. That "control the users' experience" phrase certainly pushed some of *my* buttons, but that's not to say it would do the same for anyone else. Maybe I could have made that clearer. To me it sounds like "I'm going to make this look like *I* think it should look, and if it doesn't suit you, or your platform, tough." Very possibly that wasn't what you meant. I'm more than a little cranky on this subject (and I mean that both as "irritable" and "a crank"). >And Robert Maas's crankiness should be addressed as such, not as any >commentary on a hiring process that we all admit sucks. Sure. -- | B. L. Massingill | ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor. .