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OriginalGriff wrote: Would a "pay by the problem" approach improve that? Or just scare the "easy money coder" away from the industry?
IMO, this would give lots of employment to the legal profession - is the client's request an enhancement or a bug report?
One problem is that many software projects don't have a proper specification, so legitimate disagreements can arise about the scope of work.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Which could lead to better specifications as well ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"Specifications"? You make it sound as if you grew up in a waterfall. We are agile today, and the source code is the specification.
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If we paid hackers to find AND FIX the holes in security software it could eliminate zero day stuff.
Or, they would figure out they'd be coding themselves out of a job and stop.
I hate it when I follow my logic to the end.
Iβve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I usually strong-arm users into helping test the product; so, my "bugs" are usually requirements that were not previously identified or acknowledged.
I know some (office) political types want to call all omissions "bugs", but that's simply not the case.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Would you like to upgrade to Windows 2023 for the low low price of $11,999,999.99?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I'll wait for the BOGOF
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Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Being a solo developer and handling frontline support for the software I develop and sell, I'm already paying for bugs or poor design with my time. My goal is to keep the support line from ringing, or when it does, to be able to react quickly to minimize support time. After all, time == money.
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"Hope is contagious"
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I'm sure I read something a while back about the archaeologists who offered to pay for each additional fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which lead the herdsmen who found them to rip up any pages they found so they could get paid for more fragments.
And based on past experience, every new feature request or change to the specification would suddenly be classed as a "bug" by the customer.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah and I might be king.
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Why is it then that, looking at the current batch of kids, it seems to be working in reverse?
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"Proof is in the pudding!"
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Please don't spoil it for others
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Why would I?
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