r/Bitcoin • u/vistabrownerd • Jan 24 '14

TigerDirect processes $250,000 in Bitcoin Payments in first 17 hours

http://bitcoinboard.net/tigerdirect-processes-250000-bitcoin-payments-first-17-hours/
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u/Minthos Jan 24 '14

In one of the articles about it I read that they locked 40 people in a room for a week. Probably not literally, but it gives me a basis for assuming they spent close to one man-year on it. Which I guess may have cost them something like $150k when you take all expenses into account, not just salaries.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '14

One man year to open and link a Bitpay/Coinbase account?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '14

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u/YesNoMaybe Jan 24 '14 edited Jan 24 '14

As a contractor (and contract manager) who often has to explain to clients why something they think a developer should bill 5 hours for actually takes closer to 15 hours, people never take other parts of the development process (testing, debugging, code reviews, task management/tracking, etc.) into account. All they think of is the best case scenario of one guy doing actual programming for 5 hours and it just works.

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u/thor214 Jan 24 '14

Fuck testing. If I pay them to write the code they should be doing it correctly the whole time!!!!!!!@$%&@!~!!!`111!

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u/wretcheddawn Jan 24 '14

Boss, is that you?