[OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 11/14/2011 04:33 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> 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?
>
Not every problem can be meaningfully defined into a fixed price solution.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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