Rent-A-Coder 8

[gbaughma]

Ok, not really an ethical question... not really belonging to any of the OTHER forums I read, but since someone had a statement regarding RAC before... I thought I'd post it here.

I thought, just for grins, that I'd check out the "Rent a coder" web site, and see what's there. Never been there. Heard of it.

OK, are people NUTS? Let me give some examples of what people are asking for, and what they're willing to pay:

"Java Stock Market Trader System" that calculates Relative Strength Index for share closing prices... Code must be FULLY annotated, with a COMMENT after EACH line of code. Max Bid: $17.00

OpenGL Turntable Interface $80

A java 3D Viewer which renders wireframe and solid objects created in 3ds max... allows for ratation and zoom in/out. $50

ASP.net - get auction data using regex from ebay $30

OK... someone give me a reality check. Are people REALLY writing that kind of code for that kind of money? And what's that "Fully Annotated" crap? I'm all about comments, but I'll be dipped if I'm going to teach someone else how to program by putting a comment for EVERY SINGLE line of code, explaining what it does, all for $17?

Or, has the market gotten so flooded with programmers and script-kiddies that you can get custom software written for $17 nowadays?

<frown>

Love to hear some other thoughts....


Just my 2¢

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify its owner." --Me
--Greg

 

[dBjason]

And nevermind the ungodly plumber's crack.


...I'm still in therapy for what happened when my garbage disposal went out.

 

[BackStageJim]

LOL

"flooded with programmers and script-kiddies "

My fear is that 17.00 might be the high bar is India and China continue to trash the market place with bad code. I just asked for a simple user name to be printed on sales order. Both creator and approver id. Simple right. No. They put the same name in both places. Even though I gave them the psudo-code (in SQL) to obtain the proper name.

And they wanted to charge me for the fix.

 

[ANFPS26]

Purple? All this time I thought the stars were pink.

Jim

 

[SamBones]

Sometimes the plumbers charge extra hours because they sent some Bozo that doesn't know what he's doing!

I once had a water leak in my house. My house has a concrete slab foundation and the leaking pipe was in the slab. I called a plumber out of the phone book who's ad mentioned specifically being a leak expert.

The guy that showed up was a "kid" in his low 20's probably. Talking to him I got the feeling that he wasn't the "expert" mentioned in the ad. I figured I didn't have a lot to lose so I let him go at it.

Well, he had this listening device to locate the leak. It was a large box with some headphones and a probe and all kinds of scientific looking knobs and dials. He went on the hunt for the leak. For a very long time. A VERY long time. He couldn't locate it, so he decided to use the "explore with a jack hammer" technique. He started digging and digging, chewing up my foundation. After eating up half of a bedroom and about 8 square feet of hallway, he found the leak.

About that time, the "real expert" showed up. A guy probably in his late 50's. He looked at the crater and the rubble and asked why he dug so much up. The "expert" told the "real expert" that the listener thingie wasn't working. The "real expert" went and looked at the listening thingie. He took one look at it and said, "Oh, you've got the microphone plugged into the headphone jack, and the headphone plugged into the microphone jack."

As you can imagine, I was not pleased!

Sorry for being such a long post, but someone mentioned plumbers!

 

[svanels]

Sam, I suspect that the "expert" showed up with a portable airborne ultrasound analyzer.
If the thing was not charged, he wouldn't have noticed either.

Step number 1 in trouble shooting a computer/car/etc..:
1) Is there power/gas...

Steven

 

[grande]

So I signed up for RAC, just to try it out while I'm in school and not working full time. I've bid on three jobs, and gotten none of them :-(

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