<story><title>&quot;Don&apos;t argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it.&quot;</title><url>http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&amp;story=Switcher.txt&amp;characters=Steve%20Jobs&amp;sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Rating&amp;detail=medium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>10ren</author><text>This story inspired me tonight: reading about how he didn&apos;t know if it would work or not, and how he fixed bugs as they arose is true hacking style. And it&apos;s definitely a way to get things done. So that&apos;s what I did tonight, and made a ton of progress; just hounding down and stomping on bugs mercilessly.&lt;p&gt;Why wasn&apos;t I doing that already? I&apos;d been reading too much Dijkstra, that the &quot;competent&quot; programmer can show whether his code will work or not. It&apos;s definitely possible to do it that way, but it&apos;s (very sadly) too high a standard for me to reach in reasonable time (or maybe at all), for more than toy problems. Dijkstra used this approach to write a multitasking operating system. I&apos;m pretty sure I couldn&apos;t do that.</text></comment>
<story><title>&quot;Don&apos;t argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it.&quot;</title><url>http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&amp;story=Switcher.txt&amp;characters=Steve%20Jobs&amp;sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Rating&amp;detail=medium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rodh257</author><text>&quot;Well, I think you are. How long do you think it will take to do this project? A month or two? I think a really good programmer like you could get it done in less than two months.&quot;&lt;p&gt;In my limited experience negotiating on fees for programming or selling software I&apos;ve heard this line a few times. &quot;You seem like a really good programmer, that program probably would have only taken you say 2 days, times that by an average hourly rate and thats the rate I&apos;m willing to pay for the program and all source code&quot;.&lt;p&gt;Always a sign for me that things aren&apos;t going to go well.</text></comment>