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Post by grecy »

I think this highlights the interesting lack of fundamental understanding by the general public about software and how complex and expensive it is.

Intuitively people understand things like cars and laptops are expensive, time consuming and difficult to build requiring complex tools and machinery.

This is not the case with software, where we see time and time again requests like "same as Facebook..." or "Same as Amazon". People have no idea of the time, money and expertise that has gone into making these sites function.

I wonder if we can change that lack of understand, or if the general public will always be at a loss to understand the complexities of software ?

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Post by balabaster »

... for $1,000 do you want it to scale as well or do you just want something faked that'll work for 1 concurrent user? Do you need full reporting and analytics? Load testing? Unit tests? etc.? Ridiculous.
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