You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by zachrose on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:28PM (#23838827)

I sometimes look at small mass-produced plastic items and marvel at how hard it would be to make one from scratch. If you showed me, say, a fluted plastic bottle of wite-out with a screw-on cap, I would have to assume you had a very expensive operation up and running that was already churning these out.

In software we can put a few shapes on a screen in just the right context and people will believe there's an operation as sophisticated as the wite-out bottle factory behind it.

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Re:You've only added two lines – why did that take two days? by DougWebb on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:23PM (#23839792)

You could spend a few hours making a 3D print of that bottle to produce a very believable mock-up. And then use it with someone gullible to make a deal on an order to manufacture a million of them. You get your commission on the sale, toss the 3D print to your manufacturing engineer, and let them know the customer needs delivery next week.

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