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You're right, it's not relevant to their abilities. It's relevant to the historical opportunities that such companies have had available to them. Likely, the
by jawns 2y ago
You're right, it's not relevant to their abilities. It's relevant to the historical opportunities that such companies have had available to them.
Likely, the thinking was, "We know that in the past such firms have experienced disadvantages. In years past, bias and discrimination against them may have hurt their chances of procuring a contract like this. Recognizing that historical disadvantage, we now want to give such firms opportunities to show the world that they are every bit as capable."
- fortran77 2y agoCutting edge, avant garde creative companies have for centuries been staffed by non-conforming people. We could give a similar description for the staff of our consulting company. But we don't. We just use our work and our reputation. There's no "historical disadvantage" for a company that supports the hacker community to be full off all sorts of eccentric, non-conforming people.
- firesteelrain 2y agoEspecially since this is JLCPCB type work. It should be fairly automated.
- echoangle 2y agoI would guess most of the work was the design, not the manufacturing.
- firesteelrain 2y ago“ we sourced components, designed all of the hardware, wrote production test software, and organized all circuit board manufacturing, prototype manufacturing, facilitated large volume production manufacturing and logistics, and general project coordination. ”
- echoangle 2y agoIs that supposed to contradict my response? Because I see a “designed all of the hardware” in there, that’s what I was talking about.
- firesteelrain 2y agoYou said most. It wasn’t most.
- echoangle 2y agoHow do you know it wasn’t most of the work? Most effort, not most characters in a list of tasks.
- firesteelrain 2y agoIf you have ever done this type of work then you would know it’s not most
- echoangle 2y agoWell I haven’t, maybe explain how I’m wrong instead of posting a standalone quote which doesn’t even contradict my assertion. I said “I guess” because I have no clue what takes more work, that was my initial impression.
- firesteelrain 2y agoIn this case, where the supplier has been involved in almost every aspect of the project, the design portion could be on the lower end of this range since they are also managing manufacturing, logistics, and coordination. For a typical custom PCB project with the involvement described, design work could represent around 25% to 35% of the overall effort.
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