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Re:Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport at Scale 22x: Coding ... by eikenberry on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:16PM (#43473622)
> wanted to sell development services to companies

So he wanted to start a contracting service? Contractors are famous for writing piles of untested, spaghetti code that only kind of works but they've finished it by then and the contract is over. Then some poor sap gets stuck trying to maintain it. Probably one of the worse ways businesses acquire custom software.

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Re:Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport at Scale 22x: Coding ... by anonzzzies on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:20AM (#43479340)
It is how most software is written and indeed, often badly. But how do 'businesses acquire custom software' otherwise? Most in house employees suck as well. So what's the other ways?
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