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Long post of someone making an ass of themselves because they demand every cost be knowable up front.
by sqldba 6y ago
Long post of someone making an ass of themselves because they demand every cost be knowable up front.
- AllegedAlec 6y agoThe article explicitly mentions predictable work.
- Terretta 6y agoAnd says that's what you pay hourly for. Says that in detail. Misunderstands that the experts are generally hired to "discover" or "invent" an answer that wasn't known, and discovery / invention often isn't estimable. Further, author goes into risk, the real risk is of course acceptability of the expert's answer, which involves the buyer "being brought along" with accepting the answer, a process the expert genuinely cannot predict.