How right you are, I know nothing of software development. I speak not from coding experience, but from a small and well honed experience in owning a business. In your situation, adding 2-3 more people, ones that know coding, will not hurt in the production of new and the fixing of the old.
I find it hard to believe that HTC does not have a "bottleneck" of some sort when there are so many things that have been brought forth but yet so few things seem to be addressed, rectified, or added. AH2 has been around for how long and how many new thing have been added? it appears that there are so many things that would add *that* much more to the sim, but yet they have been ignored, omitted, or put on the back burner for .. ... .. other projects that have been denoted as more important. That means there are minor thingsm whatever they may be, that could be tinkered with by an intern. Oh, and I'd be very willing to bet there are many programming students that could match HTC's ability to code, program, etc.
With the following that AH2 has, one would be inclined to think that HTC would want to be a bit more agressive in releasing new material or improving wha already exists. Or, on the other hand one could go the complete opposite and say that even though AH2 is where it is at the following is still as large as it is. But from my point of view, why be happy with same-same and more same?
Is there anyone out there quick on the draw to say that AH2 could use *nothing* more?
This has to be one of the most arrogant post I have ever seen.
Your first line.
How right you are, I know nothing of software development.
Said it all, it is equivalent to you staying in a Holiday Inn express last night ,and then tell a brain surgery you know more than he about his craft. And then disagree how he does things.
You did not even take the time to read and understand my post.
I find it hard to believe that HTC does not have a "bottleneck" of some sort
This was not stated in the least, it was stated in regards you your asking about using and intern with flight modeling.
It is again blatantly obvious you have never worked in a creative or engineering environment.
1st I have been programming for 35 years. I have worked in many coding environment from large to small. Your business is simply a process. Sell, fill form, perform claims ....
Your cost structure ,I would assume, is mostly in the process. I.E. if you wish to grow, it will require more people to perform the process. This is 100% opposite from development where your cost structure occurs from creating and implementing Ideas, and the process cost is almost negligible.
Development and engineering are not a simple process that can be broken into pieces. And as the classic fault listed in the mythical man month , 9 women can not make a baby in a month.
As an example in our current terrain rewrite, I have re written it many times. It is the nature of new development. You can not see all the out comes of such a complex problem until you start implementing it.
With a piece of software on the scale of AH, just learning the lay of the land is huge. The types of software an intern could write, would take longer to document and explain , then simply to have Stewart or I write.
And entry level coder has a basic knowledge of the tools at hand to create programs. He has basic knowledge of some algorithms. He has almost zero knowledge of the pro's and cons of different approaches as they apply to any specific system he would be working on.
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