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I was talking with a developer whom I have a lot of respect for. We meet up every 2 years or so to swap stories and mostly me get more info out of his head. I was talking about how many people guage a projects 'success' by it's presenttion and really don't care about how roboust it is under the hood. He said 'when that oil light comes on, just nock out the light.'
that amused me greatly.
that amused me greatly.
posted by forkev at 4/20/2006 01:03:00 PM
2 Comments:
that is precisely why we should all be salesmen and not engineers. its not about what you sell, but how you sell it.
its sad, and it hurts, but its true. spend less time on project and more on presentation and you will win the hearts of your target market and sell them something that you didn't have to put as much time into development.
put on your sales hat! its hard for me to do, and I always bring up 'the other side'. learn not to do that and put your full effort into selling your product and you'll have a winner, no matter whats under the hood.
i have software running in production for over two years, and I found a bug today that could allow a would be hacker get some free money. not a happy find. So i patched it. To make myself feel better, I spent a few minutes on the competitions website, found a much more glaring bug and reported it to them. Now I can sleep tonight and know my software is at par.
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