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by perihelions 1611 days ago
>"No, start grep on the source code"

Or print it out on hard copy, make interns read it line by line, then charge 400% of their labor as your management fee.

What's the purpose of using regexps here? You're optimizing away your own revenue!

2 comments

There's no need to have actual interns read it, that would be unnecessarily cruel. Service fees don't need to be based on actual billable hours. You can charge 400% of the time it would take interns to read it without actually doing that, as long as your grep one-liner delivers the same value.
Also charge $1/page for the printing. Then ship it to them, in triplicate, and charge for the overnight shipping (it's an urgent bug after all).
Add a note that the lines at risk have been marked!