Hello Max, I'm glad you made a point about coming back to productive discussion by locking the thread, but I do want to unlock it for a min since the points above deserve to be addressed.

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Quote from: AMK on February 17, 2013, 10:41:31 PM
To VLS:

Could you explain this statement by Sam please

Yes, certainly dear AMK.

Though I must say to address it properly for you to understand I'm obliged to provide some background.


I've been living "contract to contract" since my last "stable" regular job several months ago, last year.

At the first time I've asked since it was either to continue programming or halting and going out job hunting to complete Christmas.

This year, my health since mid january has been quite shaky. I did have to forcefully stop working altogether neither online nor offline. I publicly talked about "flu", but I got worse.

I sincerely thought I wouldn't make it to have something left to give my son a birthday gift. I asked Sam if he would top it with *something* then it would be either for extra features or be forwarded as coding credit for any other project. $25 isn't a fortune, but I could complete the kiddo's gift.

It was right before I obtained my current data-entry and inventory contract, which finishes on Tuesday.

Both times were on special occasions (christmas, birthday) as a private call to a friend, and sadly I must say when I was in uncertainty. Should my kid's birthday had been only one more week later, such message shouldn't had been seen the light. The "wifey" was really on my back. I am very thankful to Sam for this.

After last year's Venezuelan casinos crackdown finally reached my state, I couldn't even try my luck. Mind you.

Gladly as I receive this local contract's payment, i can make it up to her and my son with a proper present. Things go up and down in life and the game, no bad beat lasts forever!

Best regards.

Quote from: billion loudspeaker on February 17, 2013, 10:23:33 PM
I think we are agreeing here, Sam.
 
Isn't that what Victor did with this tracker?

Indeed, and that's the only way I do my programs.


I simply don't believe in vendor lock-in.


True; I will get the odd leak, but that's inevitably going to happen so I better spend my limited coding time in actually producing program code rather than restricting what the user can do with his program.


I am even keen to share the how-to's with fellow programmers. I'm not against creative copying.


Thanks for caring and participating.