p.s. by "construction work", here, I meant something like building houses -- something I am not currently doing.
-- Raul On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why dishonest? > > Granted, I approximated, but there are a variety of costs here having > to do with making sure the result is reliable and works properly. > > Mind you, with that kind of price, I might lose the customer, but > think about it, this price has to include things like: > > * Training costs for myself (assuming I do not know python) > > * Testing costs for the new system > > * Finding the right pieces (python 2 or python 3? which of the many > libraries are appropriate?) > > * Hiring costs for the person I am finding to help me > > * Ongoing maintenance costs > > Note also that if someone wanted me to do construction work, my prices > for that work would probably be higher than the price if they hired > someone that had been in the business. I could offer them a lower > price, of course, but the resulting work would probably be shoddy or > take an excessively long time, because I could not afford to do any > better when just getting started. > > -- > Raul > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Neil Murphy <dnmur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sounds dishonest to me. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 7 Dec 2012, at 12:29, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Of course a real python solution involving an existing implementation >>> should be a few lines of python that call into the existing >>> implementation... >>> >>> Anyways, if I were in your situation, I would explain that I expected >>> that my python development costs would be about 5x my J development >>> costs, and they would be 10x if I had had to develop the python >>> version from scratch without first doing the J implementation. >>> >>> If they agree to pay those costs, I'd go out and hire myself a good >>> python programmer to help me out with that part of the implementation. >>> >>> -- >>> Raul >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
