Even $10k per year is rather cheap when compared to the price of an additional employee.
The question, of course, is whether the value of that work sufficiently exceeds the cost. For employees it's something of a different question, though related. There, you are looking at the person's problem solving capabilities and learning abilities, among other things. People have surprising abilities to learn, adapt, create, work and do thing, and dealing and using that is just a lot different from the kind of specificity you want out of a mechanical system. Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Scott Locklin <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul wrote: > >>Ick. Actually it looks more like a dollar an hour. >>Still cheap, but not as cheap as the pricing page indicated. There's many >>billing options and it actually costs quite a lot to study them (in terms >>of people time) > > I try to tell my customers this. They get hooked on the EC2 running some > simple database app on smaller instances. Then when it comes time for me to > do some data analysis using R (I have used J too, though don't tell anyone), > the large instances end up costing quite a bit. Deploying something that's > hammering the CPU 24/7, they're looking at $8-10k an instance-year. Worse: > network and hard drive is often ungodly slow unless you give Amazon moar > money. > > Cool thing for the occasional job though. I was considering fiddling with > their GPU machines, but decided that forking out $150 for a GTX750 was > plenty cheap, without any uncertainty. > > -SL > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
