On 11/14/2011 04:33 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding > the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)": >> Long ago I got out of the PC repair/support business when the 50 NIS >> an hour people took over. > Am I the only one bothered by all this "per hour" talk? > > What prevents a 50-NIS-per-hour consultant from telling you he worked > for 4 hours on your problem, which it actually took him just one hour in > his lab? > Or a 200-NIS-per-hour consultant from finding your problem in 10 > minutes, because he solved exactly this problem a week ago or wrote the > necessary code already? > > So how is the "price per hour" a meaningful variable when comparing two > consultants? > Not every problem can be meaningfully defined into a fixed price solution.
Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. http://www.lingnu.com
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