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by chrischen 3181 days ago
$8M still seems high for a scale.
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jordanb 3181 days ago
That's because the story is bogus. Weighing products for QA (to make sure there wasn't underfilling) is extremely common. It's called "checkweighing" and you can buy COTS scales to do exactly that.

https://doranscales.com/checkweighers/in-motion-checkweigher

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rocqua 3181 days ago
100 000 for the scale, 7 900 000 for knowing where to put the scale.
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chrischen 3181 days ago
100,000 still seems high. Clearly I'm in the wrong industry. I should be fleecing enterprise businesses instead.
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firethief 3181 days ago
Let me introduce you to a thing called Java!
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Dylan16807 3181 days ago
Yeah, a lot of the lesson seems to (unintentionally) be "don't outsource small things". Even completely ignoring the fan solution, the CEO could have assigned one existing engineering employee to work on it and gotten an $8k system with a non-precision scale.
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pcurve 3181 days ago
Yes, but $8MM is total project cost = existing full time employee costs, outside consultant cost, and hardware + software.
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