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Old 08-02-2008, 10:21 AM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Libertine View Post
I think most programmers simply stay away from "near-finished" projects that were abandoned by another programmer. Usually, projects like that mean you have to waste hours and hours cleaning up shoddy code.

After all, if the programmer you hired first was a competent professional, he wouldn't have bailed.
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9/10 it either royally fucked up code which would be easier code from scratch

the problem is the person doing the hiring doesn't want to pay that cost again.
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