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On 11/14/2011 04:33 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)":
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<pre wrap="">Long ago I got out of the PC repair/support business when the 50 NIS
an hour people took over.
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Am I the only one bothered by all this "per hour" talk?
What prevents a 50-NIS-per-hour consultant from telling you he worked
for 4 hours on your problem, which it actually took him just one hour in
his lab?
Or a 200-NIS-per-hour consultant from finding your problem in 10
minutes, because he solved exactly this problem a week ago or wrote the
necessary code already?
So how is the "price per hour" a meaningful variable when comparing two
consultants?
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Not every problem can be meaningfully defined into a fixed price
solution.<br>
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Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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