Anyone ever use E-Lance?

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Anyone ever use E-Lance?

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http://www.elance.com/c/home/main/index.pl?

just wondering if anyone here has used their service before and how did it go?

Its kinda of a costly investment to see if its all its cracked up to be or not :)
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Works cool ... Someone told me its worth investing ... if you got the goods to deliver ;)
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from what I've seen on it, everything is so "low-balled" as far as prices.

by the time you're done with a project it looks like you just made $8 per hour. It would be good for spare cash but I coudlnt' see someone doing anything off that site full time.
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Yes very true ... Currently its basically an OUTSOURCE tool, making it easy for companies to get things done in pennies. Economy isn't helping either. And with the job market as it is, its nice to have spare change ;)

What it comes down to is how much money can you invest to get some return on investment. :lol:
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tell me about it, I've been looking for a new web programming job for 6 months at the place I'm at now but there is literally nothing out there anymore that pays well.

not many php jobs in los angeles from my searches either :(
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I know the feeling ... No respectable C/C++/Java jobs in IL either ... Learning php so haven't searched ;)
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the crazy thing is if half the people on this board joined together in a company we would own the consulting business :)
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JPlush76 wrote:the crazy thing is if half the people on this board joined together in a company we would own the consulting business :)
:lol: Very true! I'm thinking of moving to China 8O I hear they have a booming economy! :lol:
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lol I don't know if I'm ready for that step yet :)

but I will sit here and throw a temper tantrum :) that might work just as well!

lol
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Or Try getting a rich wife so you don't have to work ever!!!!!!! :lol:
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damn thats an excellent idea!

you know any rich single chicks? :(

I'm going to go home and tell my GF either she wins the lottery this week or I'm out of here!

she'll take that well :twisted:
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Post by codewarrior »

:lol: gals I know are either rich and NOT chicks or they are chicks and NOT rich!

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if ( (gal != rich) & (gal != chick) )
echo "dump'em!"
I think I'm getting hang of PHP :lol:
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Post by nielsene »

Hmm that code will always lead to "dump em" as all the comparison involve comparing implied string constants to each other....

better may be

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if (!($gal->isRich() && $gal->isChick()))
echo "dump'em!";
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Post by codewarrior »

nielsene wrote:Hmm that code will always lead to "dump em" as all the comparison involve comparing implied string constants to each other....

better may be

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if (!($gal->isRich() && $gal->isChick()))
echo "dump'em!";
:lol: I was just doing Psudo code ;) Thanks for the correction though ... But the idea was to dump 'em anyway :D
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Post by nielsene »

Just realized that its probably a bad design decision to have the gal object evalute its own richness/chickness so were we go again:

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class Jerk 
{
    var $name;
    function Jerk($name)
    {
        $this->name=$name;
    }

     function evalutateGF($gf)
     {
          if (!($this->isRich($gf) && $this->isChick($gf)))
          { return "Dump"; } else {return "Dream About";}
     }
       
     function isRich($person)
    {
         return ($person->getMoney() > $LOTS_OF_MONEY);
     }

     function isChick($person)
     {
         return FALSE; // abstract, must be implemented by subclass
     }
}
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