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		Justsignedup on May 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008) anyone doing rent a coder should follow some oldie but goodie advice: create a few small tasks to get started. rent out a few coders for a week. make all of them code the given tasks. pick the best quality and continue. you will get good quality out bad, whatever you prefer... And waste little money. the only flaw is if all the coders who are participating are not the quality you wanted.

twistedpair on May 6, 2013 [–]

And then you become the PM and integrator too? That overhead will start to stack up. Don't forget Brook's Law.

willismichael on May 6, 2013 | [–]

Sounds to me more like "throw away most of the initial work, keep 1-3 people that do the best work"

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