🚀 go-pugleaf

On 19/05/2018 07:43, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> 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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