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Re:Why not program right? by logicallee on Friday July 06, 2018 @06:28PM (#17475606)
>>For a website that will support a two week marketing campaign, you don't need anything talked about in this article

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>And then, five years after you've left the company and some system inevitably collapses with nobody having a clue as to what went wrong you'd finally realize the wisdom of all that.

So guy puts up a web site for $500 in consulting fees that is a 2-week project. It makes the company $7 million over the next 72 months because it becomes literally the biggest inbound channel.

Are you saying he shouldn't have built it for $500? What should he have done?

Re:Why not program right? by jacquesm on Friday July 06, 2018 @06:56PM (#17475739)
You should probably read the whole comment.