PERL Miscellaneous - Re: What to expect to pay for website development and maintenance?

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Re: What to expect to pay for website development and maintenance?

Charles Sweeney

2005-08-30, 6:58 pm

Norman L. DeForest wrote

> I remember reading about a university support desk for student
> programmers that had a teddy bear in the reception area. An ironclad
> rule was that any student wanting help with his/her program had to
> describe the problem to the teddy bear in complete detail before
> asking the actual support people. Just describing the problem to the
> bear was often enough for a student to realise where he/she was going
> wrong. Apparently the teddy bear was responsible for solving more
> than half of the support desk enquiries.

Brilliant!

I find that myself. Asking the question (as if you were asking another
person) very often produces the answer.

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

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