John Zabroski <johnzabro...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jun 15, 2012 2:39 PM, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com> > wrote: >> >> John Zabroski <johnzabro...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> > Sorry, you did not answer my question, but instead presented excuses >> > for why programmers misunderstand people. (Can I paraphrase your >> > thoughts as, "Because people are not programmers!") >> >> No, you misunderstood my answer: >> "Because people don't pay programmers enough." > > In the words of comedian Spike Milligan, "All I ask is for the chance to > prove money can't make me happy." > > But my motto comes from pianist Glenn Gould: the ideal ratio of performers to > audience is one. I have never seen a software team produce better results > with better pay, but most of > the great advances in software came from somebody doing something differently > because any other way was simply wrong. > > Having seen millionaires throw their money around to build their dream app > (the Chandler project featured in Scott Rosenberg's book Dreaming in Code and > all of Sandy Klausner's > vaporware graphical programming ideas), and seeing what road blocks still > remained, I disbelieve your answer. > > Who invented the spreadsheet? One person. > Who invented pivot tables? One person. > Who invented modeless text editing? One person. > > How much money is enough, anyway? In the words of John D. Rockefellar, "A > little bit more"?
I wasn't speaking of the work of art programmers would do anyway. I was speaking of what the customers want. If they want to have the same services as offered by plumbers (you don't hold the spanner to a plumber, or you don't bring your own tubes; you don't get wet; you just call him, and let him deal with the leak: simple and nice user interface, good end-result, including the hefty bill), then you'll have to pay the same hourly rates as what you pay to plumbers. Just google some statistics. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
