Comments on: Pick a budget /code/pick-a-budget/ sealed abstract class drew {} Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:51:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.15 By: Drew Crawford /code/pick-a-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-7589 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:39:08 +0000 /?p=1418#comment-7589 I think that happens whenever the contractor knows more than you, which is a common case for contracting, not just software.

I think a better way to frame the issue is that ordinary people have opinions about how Microsoft Office works but not, say, about how Ibuprofen works, which are both products produced by technical contracting. The result is a lot of armchair SJ wannabes that “know” what things “should” cost.

]]> By: Rhema /code/pick-a-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-7588 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:37:25 +0000 /?p=1418#comment-7588 Do you think that software development suffers more from this information exchange impasse than other contract work because many clients lack the technical training to understand software development? It must be hard to know how much one should pay for magic.

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