> I still can't imagine a situation where outsourcing is cheaper, which is why most respected software companies don't do it.
IBM and AT&T both hire outside resources....
>the concept that you WANT them to go away afterwards
I was making a riff off a joke about prostitutes which is why I chose that exact phrasing...you don't want them to go away, but you don't want to pay them except for a very occasional upgrade.
>I wont need to support this in a month so fuck it I'll just finish it the quick hacky way now.
On quality: Some places would rather get a hack for 1/3 the price than a stable piece of software. Not that should be the baseline, but people are (unfortunately) highly tolerant of crappy software if it fixes budgetary problems. Does that mean you should offer the hack? Sometimes. I have done it, but I offer the better thing too when possible, and explain you're going to pay a lot more for V2-4 if you buy the really cheap V1.
IBM and AT&T both hire outside resources....
>the concept that you WANT them to go away afterwards
I was making a riff off a joke about prostitutes which is why I chose that exact phrasing...you don't want them to go away, but you don't want to pay them except for a very occasional upgrade.
>I wont need to support this in a month so fuck it I'll just finish it the quick hacky way now.
On quality: Some places would rather get a hack for 1/3 the price than a stable piece of software. Not that should be the baseline, but people are (unfortunately) highly tolerant of crappy software if it fixes budgetary problems. Does that mean you should offer the hack? Sometimes. I have done it, but I offer the better thing too when possible, and explain you're going to pay a lot more for V2-4 if you buy the really cheap V1.