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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Jul 2018
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    This is how many developers think contracts work. Notably, most businesses do *not* think that this is how contracts work. This is why contracts are drafted carefully by professionals and are really effing expensive.pic.twitter.com/YQlwHv6ePe

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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Jul 2018
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        I would ordinarily cite a comment on HN but I have a strict no shaming policy; take it as "a conveniently copy/pastable example of a very common flawed belief in the developer community."

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Jul 2018
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        Free professional output is available from many people, including yours truly, and it does exactly what it says on the tin, not what you might wished it did. That second thing? That's called a "deliverable." You can ask for it to be specified in a Statement of Work.

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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Jul 2018
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        You can feel free to ask any professional for a rough estimate on what number they will write on a Statement of Work; many will happily indicatively quote you. If I were not full-time employed, my last number would have been $30k per week.

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      5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 12 Jul 2018
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        You don't have to like that number. You don't have to agree with that number. You just have to convince the people who control the money at your company to promise to pay that number before you have any moral claim to assign work to me.

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      2. Francisco Presencia‏ @FPresencia 12 Jul 2018
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        Replying to @patio11

        Tip: resize the window before the screenshot to make it more compact. It's very difficult to read such a long image on mobile 😢

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      3. Nerd curious abt psychology  🧠‏ @ClayNichols 13 Jul 2018
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        Agreed. And he probably know that. He provided a free service. There was no implied "fitness to the task'. So this seems to b an example of his point.

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      1. danielle‏ @endocrimes 12 Jul 2018
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        The only thing more expensive than a good contract for a business transaction is not having one 😂😬.

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      2. Andrew Wygle‏ @awygle 12 Jul 2018
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        THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. What do these devs think this means?

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      1. Matt Durgavich‏ @devenvexe 12 Jul 2018
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        Contracts are so very necessary precisely because they put boundaries around “should” and “ought to”. It empowers and protects both parties. It took me a long time to think that way.

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