On 10/16/2024 6:42 PM, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin wrote:
I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted himself into a corner and found me. I showed my work to the client. The other programmer was retiring. In 4 months, I rebuilt his 3 years work. During the next 8 months, I finished and expanded the project for a total of $80k. Client independently rewrote the system within the last 3 years at a cost of $600,000 so far. This is all too common.
So there are different levels of (in)competence out there. Not surprising. It's also not too surprising that a degree does not *guarantee* competence. There is probably some correlation or even causation between degrees and competence, but certainly it is not absolute. Even experience is no guarantee. Your point is ... ? Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
