[ale] New website for H1B [Slightly OT]

[Marvin Dickens]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:59, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>>>>>>Snippage<<<<<<<<

> I *can* post code that I am very impressed with. 
> It logs into Yahoo gets the symbols and imports the stock prices into my mySQL 
> database in PHP. The script cost less than $70, was DONE within 1 day, is 
> fully commented, was coded in Russia, and most importantly, works perfectly. 
> At $10 an hour, it would probably be considered "meatloaf code."

If this code is easily read/understood by others than those who wrote
it, it is DEFINITETLY  not meatload, but steak (Regardless of the
price). Also, it tells me two things:

A.) If one person wrote it, tested it and documented it in one day,
he/she is NQH or Not Quite Human. Therefore, it is likely this was a
team effort consisting of 2 or 3 people who did the coding, testing and
documenting (Although, it is possible one person did it...). The reason
I say this is that typically, one person who is pretty good can produce
somewhere around 125 to 175 lines of fairly complex, PRODUCTIVE and
error free (Or at least very close to error free) code a day. This
number assumes a good familiarity with the language in question and no
use of wizards.

B.) It is possible that the writer(s) of this code wrote a module that
was VERY similar to what you wanted. With very little effort,
he/she/they made a few changes, test it, re-documented it and sent it to
you.

But, anyway you look at it, you got a good deal.


Best

M. Dickens


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