Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive

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Sportsqs points out a story at Coding Horror which begins: "Given the rapid advance of Moore's Law, when does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I'd say almost always. Consider the average programmer salary here in the US. You probably have several of these programmer guys or gals on staff. I can't speak to how much your servers may cost, or how many of them you may need. Or, maybe you don't need any — perhaps all your code executes on your users' hardware, which is an entirely different scenario. Obviously, situations vary. But even the most rudimentary math will tell you that it'd take a massive hardware outlay to equal the yearly costs of even a modest five person programming team."http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/12/20/1441203 (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/20/1441203&from=rss)
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