[OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)

[Nadav Har'El]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)":
> Long ago I got out of the PC repair/support business when the 50 NIS
> an hour people took over.

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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