Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

4 people can get this data entry done in an hour. One person reads out loud while the other person types and confirms each character. The second team does exactly the same work enabling a diff on the completed work to quickly find errors once everything is done. One character per second isn't unreasonable, so that's less than an hour. Or the same team does it twice in 2 hours.


I suspect the real reason it was done was so a few "typos" could be slipped in and blamed on the poor copy. A few 1's and 7's swapped would do it.


Speak it out loud to Siri!




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: