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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by monsieurbanana on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:29AM (#37187324)
If it's that bad, you might be better off paying extra to avoid shitty outsourcing companies.

But you're probably not the person I should telling this, developers aren't usually in charge of that.

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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by jacquesm on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:59AM (#37187481)
Who mentioned outsourcing?
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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by andsoitis on Saturday August 19, 2023 @07:21AM (#37187639)
> Who mentioned outsourcing?

lijok wrote:

When we get consultants in to speedboat a new system, we give them their own separate service. Saves a lot of time and de-risks our beautiful monolith.

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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by lijok on Saturday August 19, 2023 @07:12AM (#37187581)
You wont know how bad the product produced by consultants will be until it already had effect.

And on pricing specifically, both shitty and good consultancies charge about the same. The ones that charge well below market are an outlier that will guarantee bad product - those are to be avoided.

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