Re: Bid alerts?

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:29:48 +0200, Rainer Bauer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
muttered something like:

> If my customers ask me to add a feature, the first thing I ask back is: What
> for? Most of the time they tell me really useful things they could do if they
> had that feature (in that case it wanders onto my ToDo list). But sometimes it
> is just way off, or what they want can simply not be done or the time to
> implement it exceeds the usefulness of the feature (i.e. too few other
> customers would need it).

One thing I've learned from living with a programmer--when he asks why I
want a certain feature, it's in my best interests to tell him exactly what
it is I plan to do with it. Because nine times out of ten, he will come
up with a better way to do it than the feature I wanted.

-Bertha
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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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