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I'll follow up with Brian privately. <br>
<blockquote type="cite">No aspersions cast here, but are you suggesting
that DrupalCon become a "Time and Motion" productivity conference</blockquote>
Victor, I didn't really understand your post - but you're an expert so
maybe I should? If you think it's important, please email me
off-list? <br>
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<pre wrap="">Making your methods obvious I guess would lead to driving down the costs and increasing productivity... But also I guess its destroys the competitive advantage of developers who had spend some time to develop their own methodology to simply give it away for $25.00</pre>
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Sami, I imagine that some coders consider their knowledge of best
practice to be trade secrets, but others realize that knowing how to
recognize best practice in a coder is not the same as being able to
perform it onesself, and so a coder would want to be able to
demonstrate competency on a trivial task so as to be hired for
something juicy later. <br>
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My idea was not about some Taylorist efficiency study (as I thought
Victor was maybe kidding/implying), but rather that a position exists
between the following two approaches that could be detected over a
coder's shoulder (and I am not being perjorative about these poles): <br>
<ul>
<li>"I know how to do that already, and it will take me 5 minutes but
since you aren't watching I'll bill you for my knowledge, not time, so
you'll pay for an hour and be happy you have someone you trust." </li>
<li>"I don't know how to do that, but I'll Google and Hack until it's
done and you'll pay me while I do, however long it takes."</li>
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-Bram<br>
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