On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 16:33, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding > the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)": >> Long ago I got out of the PC repair/support business when the 50 NIS >> an hour people took over. > > Am I the only one bothered by all this "per hour" talk? > > What prevents a 50-NIS-per-hour consultant from telling you he worked > for 4 hours on your problem, which it actually took him just one hour in > his lab? > Or a 200-NIS-per-hour consultant from finding your problem in 10 > minutes, because he solved exactly this problem a week ago or wrote the > necessary code already? > > So how is the "price per hour" a meaningful variable when comparing two > consultants? >
Simply because "price per hour" is a quantitative metric. The fact that it is meaningless is meaningless. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
