Re:Ask HN: What's holding your project up?
by arthurst on Saturday January 18, 2014 @08:34PM
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This is what it's like hiring a developer:
Me: "I need an omlette for breakfast tomorrow morning"
Developer: "Tomorrow is too soon. That's not enough time to raise a chicken."
Me: "I don't want you to raise the chicken and make the eggs yourself. Just go to the store and buy eggs."
Developer: "I can't do that. That's not the proper way to get eggs. We have to do it the complicated way, so that I can feel like I'm an elite programmer."
Me: "I need an omlette for breakfast tomorrow morning"
Developer: "Tomorrow is too soon. That's not enough time to raise a chicken."
Me: "I don't want you to raise the chicken and make the eggs yourself. Just go to the store and buy eggs."
Developer: "I can't do that. That's not the proper way to get eggs. We have to do it the complicated way, so that I can feel like I'm an elite programmer."