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"if you are buying the servers from scratch and hire a first rate web dev, shouldn't cost more than 10-20k$" this number is just as absurd as the $327 million.
by jshen 14y ago
"if you are buying the servers from scratch and hire a first rate web dev, shouldn't cost more than 10-20k$"
this number is just as absurd as the $327 million.
- tjr 14y agoAt $125/hour and $5000 for servers, $10-20k could be spent up in a couple weeks or so. That seems pretty reasonable, and certainly not as absurd as $327 million, which would amount to about 1200 years of FTE effort.
- jshen 14y agoIf you were the government or a big company with a reputation would you call up 1 guy and say "you've got a few weeks and 120/hr, make a site and well run it in our data enter"? Think of all the things that can go wrong! Security, PII, etc.
- tjr 14y agoAh, I thought your remark was suggesting that it should be even cheaper than $10-20k.