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		typeofhuman on Sept 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourl... I'm considering switching from hourly to a daily model. Tracking hours is becoming too granular for the work I'm doing. This includes research and development; each of which I find myself "guessing" the hours a lot of the time.

fxtentacle on Sept 3, 2022 [–]

In my case, it was the research.

If you bill 2h of DuckDuck-ing for suitable libraries to use as dependencies, that sounds like you're slacking off. But it'll probably save money for the project as a whole.

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