From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SZWEg-0005WH-2E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 23:53:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4982EE0853; Tue, 29 May 2012 23:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8CDE07C6 for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 23:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E9CC6E3D for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 00:52:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L5iSeonsbytb for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 00:52:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1846EC6E08 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 00:52:06 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company? Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 00:52:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.12-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20120529163737.1d6aaa45@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120529163737.1d6aaa45@khamul.example.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201205300052.05302.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 07c9ad0a-3a0d-4e0d-92e6-55a4b80930ca X-Archives-Hash: b52b1244a2d7215b4730d0cc89e7b2f4 On Tuesday 29 May 2012 15:37:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Oh, and this one is a classic too: > > Q: How do you get a project to be 3 years late? > A: One day at a time. Or: the first 50% of the project takes the first 90% of the time, and the other 50% of the project takes the other 90% of the time. -- Rgds Peter