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Originally Posted by interracialtoons
Well, that is exactly the part that will never be known.
A programmer can plan on a bug being in the program but no way to predict how long it takes to find the bug and fix it. If this were possible, microsoft would announce today that all windows/IE bugs will be fixed by April 20XX.
If the programmer didn't communicate with you then you have a right to complain, but you shouldn't freak out about a delay here and there.
That's just business no matter what you are doing.
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The way of getting a quote and timeframe is that you explain what you want in as much detail as possible, and then the programmer should go through the whole scripting process mentally and ask any questions where two or more possible options exist. For myself, they had done this, then they give a time, and then disappear, etc.. I'm not saying they flaked because they took an extra day or two, I'm saying they flaked because the either didn't start or in older cases they half-finished and gave up; I learned to not pay half though even upfront now. I have another project that I was quoted 6 days on but because of the person's personal circumstances that they needed to deal with they needed to delay it being finished by two days; I didn't care, I was happy that they told me instead of just disappearing; if I absolutely needed it done within the deadlne and they couldn't reach it (not because of additional things being added) then I could then at least go to someone else, assuming they were developing on my server.