Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
by Justsignedup on Monday May 06, 2013 @12:18PM
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Well. Listen, you get what you pay for.
However I think BUG count is not the issue. It's code quality. What if I told you:
"I need a POS implementation of Foo, it doesn't have to be maintainable but has to work with a taaaaad bit of ability to patch it up. I am trying to prove a concept is viable and show it off to like 50 people. I will rewrite this code if I decide to implement the concept. Also I want this done in ~ 1 week"
Should that not drive down the price and time required?
That means probably minimal tests, minimal abstractions, lots of copy-pasta, but still within decent coding guidelines and meets the needs
However I think BUG count is not the issue. It's code quality. What if I told you:
"I need a POS implementation of Foo, it doesn't have to be maintainable but has to work with a taaaaad bit of ability to patch it up. I am trying to prove a concept is viable and show it off to like 50 people. I will rewrite this code if I decide to implement the concept. Also I want this done in ~ 1 week"
Should that not drive down the price and time required?
That means probably minimal tests, minimal abstractions, lots of copy-pasta, but still within decent coding guidelines and meets the needs