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Posted by Geoff Berrow on 12/18/31 11:51
Message-ID: <W99og.10029$6m5.627@reader1.news.jippii.net> from Kimmo
Laine contained the following:
>This reminds me of a WTF published at thedailywtf.com some time ago:
>http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/74323.aspx
>
>Bascily this is what happened: customer doesn't believe an analysis could
>run so and so fast and insisted that it's broken, so the programmer checks
>the code just to see it in fact works correctly, so he adds a delay and a
>dummy progress bar to the software to give the client an impression of
>something happening. Later client complains it's now too slow, could they
>perhaps optimize the code. Sure, the developer reduces the delay to a
>shorter time and the company charges $5000 for "optimizing" the process.
>Client happily pays and gets faster program. Everyone's happy!
Tempting to put one of those in every script >:-)
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