Here I was cursing my ISP for ridiculous connection but I should have been cursing them for entirely different reasons! What is the use of taking costly high speed plans when the sites that require high speed (youtube, other video streaming) are still going to be slow?

I agree. Experience and clearly defined parameters and contract goes a long way in project based billing. If requirements are fuzzy then we developers need to help the client to make them clear by asking the right questions.

This assumption is just plain wrong. Those clients just jump on seeing such low rates without checking work first. If one's hiring process is not good then bad hires are bound to happen no matter if the hire is Indian or American.

Actually, the fact that the clients jump at price without evaluating work is exactly why the assumptions are correct.

No, low price bad developers are bad but this assumption says all low price developers are bad. There is a difference!

No, I said that most developers, regardless of price, are bad, and most overseas developers, regardless of quality, are cheap. Thus, the intersection of the two makes for a large volume of low-price, low-quality developers.

I am also in favor of getting requirements change in the start but the client should be willing to renegotiate if they change the scope too much.

Waiting for the Mac version!

s/Mac/Linux :)

I primarily use OSX due to its GUI consistency. I also like Linux a lot but I always end up breaking well working software and installations or the sound drivers in it:-). If you need to do occasional windows work then a desktop dual boot with windows and OSX/Linux is your best option.

I have also encountered this while interviewing for the couple of jobs. I thought I did not study well and that's why could not solve the problems in front of the interviewer! In fact, when I am able to solve bigger problems while developing live projects. Nice post and it echoes something which has happened to all of us at some point in time.

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Agreed. It defeats the purpose of Facebook login.

Just signed up. The main reason of signing up is to check your recommendation quality. Will check when have more time. A calendar showing episodes airing date is a good feature.