notmything

A friend of mine moved to the Philippines with her husband (both Australian) to set up an offshore development shop doing NetSute ERP implementations for Australian NetSuite customers (usually mid-market retailers or manufactures).

She’s been there for 4 years now so it must be going well - her house is amazing there too.

So if one thing is true then other similar things must be true!!!

So I'm supposed to say this to my wife when I lose my job? The world will move on and I will struggle to pay the mortgage and pay for the kids school supplies all because of some rant on HN News. Jesus christ...

Nothing would ever get built if individual devs were held liable by the public.

The liability sits with your employer.

As a contractor - I had insurance to cover me up to a million pounds.

As a full time employee, the liability falls on my employer.

I'm not saying you should shrug it off - I'm saying you should't have your life ruined over a mistake in some code you wrote.

I'm yet to see a building collapse around me in my city - I see software fail all the time though - I think we are better at building tall buildings than we are building software.

Sounds good in principle but if I lose my job tomorrow are you going to guarantee this stuff for me and my family?

Sounds dangerous - mistakes happen - will I get thrown under the bus by the media if a bug in my code causes an accident that no QA process could have reasonably picked up on?

Nope - alternative is to have a work from home culture and local community culture.

I live in one too - if we spread people out a bit more into localised communities and make work from home culture a real thing, all the pollution and lifestyle issues you get from high density housing and everyone having to work in the same few square miles would no longer be a problem.

I see one car accident on the sydney harbour bridge delay thousands of parents from getting home before their children's bed times - it's just not the right way to live, no wonder everyone is depressed and family units are struggling.

I live in high density housing - it's like being a caged hen compared to the freedom I had being brought up as a child in the countryside. The noise, the pollution, the high house prices. Not good.

Yes they should - high density housing and everyone having to commute to the same few square miles in the middle of a densely populated area is one of the biggest scams of our time.

Yet for me it's provided every single job I've ever had except my first straight out of University.

RE: 300 days.

Not always true, I took 6 month break from a large consulting firm - they have thousands of consultants so you can take a break without killing the company but obviously they want as many consultants billing hours as possible.

I work in ecommerce consulting - most of my clients take CC info on their site, the forms on the checkout POST (over SSL) to the PSP who then return a token to the site, all future transactions use the token.

Most people don't want to bounce customers to a third party site for payment, it really hurts conversions.