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Anyone ever use E-Lance?
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 3:49 pm
by JPlush76
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

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 5:11 pm
by codewarrior
Works cool ... Someone told me its worth investing ... if you got the goods to deliver

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 9:56 am
by JPlush76
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 11:55 am
by codewarrior
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.

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 11:57 am
by JPlush76
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

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:01 pm
by codewarrior
I know the feeling ... No respectable C/C++/Java jobs in IL either ... Learning php so haven't searched

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:01 pm
by JPlush76
the crazy thing is if half the people on this board joined together in a company we would own the consulting business

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:05 pm
by codewarrior
JPlush76 wrote:the crazy thing is if half the people on this board joined together in a company we would own the consulting business


Very true! I'm thinking of moving to China

I hear they have a booming economy!

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:11 pm
by JPlush76
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
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:18 pm
by codewarrior
Or Try getting a rich wife so you don't have to work ever!!!!!!!

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:25 pm
by JPlush76
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

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:53 pm
by codewarrior

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

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 1:28 pm
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() && $gal->isChick()))
echo "dump'em!";
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 1:33 pm
by codewarrior
nielsene wrote:Hmm that code will always lead to "dump em" as all the comparison involve comparing implied string constants to each other....
better may be
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if (!($gal->isRich() && $gal->isChick()))
echo "dump'em!";

I was just doing Psudo code

Thanks for the correction though ... But the idea was to dump 'em anyway

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 1:38 pm
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
}
}