Yeah I hate when people ask to get work done, and then tell you how  
"easy" it is, or how it "will only take an hour".  If you know enough  
to know it's easy or that it will take an hour, then you should  
likely know enough to just do it.

-n.


On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> William Chops Westfield wrote:
>> I wrote a tiny little C program to simulate on and off times for a
>> 7-segment
>> clock the other day.  It took about 45 minutes (of somewhat  
>> incomplete
>> attention),
>> plus probably another 20 minutes to add appropriate final comments  
>> and
>> such.
>
> And that doesn't include trying to understand the "spec" this type of
> customer thinks is all done, explaining why it takes real  
> engineering effort
> to produce a real spec, going back and forth negotiating what the  
> customer
> really wants once you put those pesky numbers on the spec (and no,  
> "as fast
> as possible", "minimal power", and "lowest possible cost" are not  
> meaningful
> metrics), creating and testing the release scripts, archiving the  
> release,
> sending the release to the customer, writing and sending a invoice  
> to the
> customer.  And this type of customer always thinks you're trying to  
> rip him
> off because the project is conceptually so simple.
>
> And all that for $100?  Yeah, right.
>
>
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