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Article #623526Re: Hell is ... ?
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 06:43
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 06:43
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On 19/05/2018 02:17, J. Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2018 14:39:40 -0400, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Gareth's Downstairs Computer >> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes: >> >>> On 18/05/2018 17:24, Alan Bowler wrote: >>>> >>>> I've always been sceptical of projects written >>>> by outside consultants ever since. >>> >>> There are those of us who take on the client as >>> though we were one of his employees, and, >>> mirabile dictu, also end up training them as >>> to what makes for a well structured readable >>> program. >> >> I was a consultant for 25 years and I believe >> I exerted a positive influence on the staff of >> every client. >> >> Besides doing good work on the project itself. >> >> Of course if a client contracted with EDS, AA, >> they got what they deserved. > > If you're working on code that does something that one person can > understand in its entirety in a few days or weeks of study then you > can be a successful consultant. I've been working the job I have now > for three years and I still understand maybe 25 percent of what I have > to deal with. > "The chap who left could have solved this problem in half an hour, so why does it take you 3 days?" Moral - pay whatever it takes to keep on the staff that amazing one-man-band self-taught gardener-turned-programmer.
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