[orthecreedence]

A client who knew nothing about programming whatsoever, much less the intricacies of programming languages, wanted my brother and I to build the stupid app they wanted in Ruby on Rails. We explained to them we don't know Ruby on Rails and doing it in that language would take us 4x longer because we'd have to learn both a language and framework as we were building the app.

"Nope, it has to be Ruby on Rails. Oh, and some firm in San Jose will do it $10K cheaper than your quote."

Fired the client, told them to go to San Jose.

[supercoder]

Perfectly reasonable for a client to dictate the technology they want a product built in. But yeah silly to engage a developer who is inexperienced in it.

[orthecreedence]

> Perfectly reasonable for a client to dictate the technology they want a product built in

Not if they know nothing about programming and they are just throwing out buzzwords they happened to pick up.