{"id":331,"date":"2008-04-05T11:40:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T15:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-04-05T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T15:40:19","slug":"bad-experience-on-rentacoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/05\/bad-experience-on-rentacoder\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad experience on RentACoder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tProbably the best thing about <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rentacoder.com\">RentACoder<\/a> is that you don&#8217;t have to pay if the work doesn&#8217;t get done. I hired an Indian programmer to fix my TCP based EmailSender class to work with Gmail. I allowed him to use OpenSSL if necessary. Almost two weeks later he tells me OpenSSL can&#8217;t send email, and if he can use a 3rd party library to send email. That makes about as much sense as a graphics programmer being asked to fix shader code, and two weeks later asking why C++ doesn&#8217;t work in shader code, and if he can use a different graphics engine. <\/p>\n<p>I get this feeling of annoyed despair that I&#8217;m wasting time and money, the same feeling I often felt with bad programmers while doing Galactic Melee. I&#8217;m really happy that I don&#8217;t have to pay if the work isn&#8217;t done. This was a major source of lost money on Galactic Melee. Since the project deadline is only 3 days away anyway I&#8217;ll just let it elapse and get my money back through arbitration.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=329\">My previous experience<\/a> was good though. I think it&#8217;s pretty easy to tell within the first two days if a contract is going to make progress or not. In the future I&#8217;ll just go to arbitration right away, rather than giving the contractor the benefit of the doubt and waiting out the whole contract for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling I&#8217;m going to end up posting here again how I did the fix myself in a couple of hours.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the best thing about RentACoder is that you don&#8217;t have to pay if the work doesn&#8217;t get done. I hired an Indian programmer to fix my TCP based EmailSender class to work with Gmail. I allowed him to use OpenSSL if necessary. Almost two weeks later he tells me OpenSSL can&#8217;t send email, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}