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These discussions tend to assume in-house development though. I've spent far too much time around organisations where "more time with bums on seats" = "direct
by technion 9y ago
These discussions tend to assume in-house development though.
I've spent far too much time around organisations where "more time with bums on seats" = "direct correlation to billing more", which = "better work" if you ask the right people. That leads to an unfortunately different scenario.
- jcadam 9y agoDefense contracting. It's all about billing hours against a contract. As long as I'm doing that, I'm making the company money.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoAnd that's how you get code from company A that's performing sanity checks on a parts of a file that are outside the scope of the spec the data in that file is supposed to meet failing content that meets spec but has had all superfluous information discarded by a custom compression algorithm that's designed by company B to improve performance on a network with insane latency. That was a fun bug to track down.