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Hope it's not to easy/difficult:
Temporary abbreviated french dialog before electrically charged atom is an allurement (10)
If OriginalGriff solves it, he doesn't need to provide an explanation today 
modified 17-Feb-16 3:39am.
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I barely resist to throw in an answer - but the French part confusing me (I can't fit it into the solution)...My French must worst than my English...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't be confused, I'm not used to setting CCCs, so it could well be my mistake.
Just give it a try
...and my French is much worse than my English, too 
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Let try...
Temporary abbreviated - TEMP
french dialog before - TAT (Can't say why!)
electrically charged atom - ION
TEMPTATION is an allurement
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Correct, you are up tomorrow!
Your explanation is not 100% correct, but sufficient I think (yesterday, I had no explanation at all  )
Temporary: TEMP
abbreviated french dialog: TAT (tete-a-tete)
electrically charged atom: ION
an allurement: TEMPTATION
Good work!
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No, is as long as have crazy people with gun
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A few years back a referee in the Netherlands was kicked to death by a couple of teens because of the same reason 
It's really sad that lives are destroyed over stupid games by f****** psychopaths.
Could you imagine shooting a coworker because he wrote some bad code?
Well, maybe you could... Forget I asked 
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Futbol player, not soccer. This is why we renamed the sport, because y'all got crazy psycho players. That and because you flop. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Saw that earlier today, good aim! but at the expense of a perfectly good ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) , now that's alcohol abuse.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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My company outsourced one project to a consulting company. Now that project is almost over we are asking for a source code + database. It is a .NET based solution with SQL Server and repository is TFS. Their estimate to deliver this will take 2 days and cost approx $3000. I am angry because that is a blunt lie that proving source code will take 2 days. I have always used subversion and not sure about TFS but my guess is it will not take that many days to give us a source code and backup of database. I need to provide feedback to my manager.
Anyone with TFS experience want to give me your feedback if TFS is the complexity or it is just them trying to fleece more money ?
Edit:
After one phone call that estimate dropped to 6-8 hours.
Few more emails and phone calls and cost dropped to $0.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
modified 18-Feb-16 23:22pm.
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It'll not take more than 1-2 hours to migrate from on-premise TFS to Microsoft-hosted TFS (VSTS, formerly VSO).
See Migrate team projects from on-premises TFS to Visual Studio Team Services[^]
Even if your DB is 300 - 400 GB in size, a backup shouldn't take more than 45 minutes. And then an overnight FedEx/UPS on a USB drive.
One guy could do all of this, TFS migration, DB backup, short drive to the nearest FedEx location in about 6-8 hours. Assuming 150/hr that'd be about $1200 max.
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This is what I am asking for
1. Check out source code from their repository ( Team Foundation Server ) and zip the folder and send that to us.
2. Create a database backup and send that or generate a script to create database tables and send that. Database size is hardly 2GB.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Ok, that's about 1-2 hours of work I'd think
Maybe they have a strict agile environment, so there's probably two stand-up meetings involved here, an iteration manager, a second scrum master, an analyst, an in-room analyst, a tester, a data expert, an architect, and then the guy who actually does all this. That'd explain the $3,000.
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Nish Nishant wrote: Maybe they have a strict agile environment, so there's probably two stand-up meetings involved here, an iteration manager, a second scrum master, an analyst, an in-room analyst, a tester, a data expert, an architect, and then the guy who actually does all this
 hic!
Thank you Nish, I needed a good laugh this morning.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I think it's a mistake for you to quote time and money here. There's no way you can tell him that without knowing a lot more about the app and all that's involved in it. See my response to him below.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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If you are paid to do a work, you do not own it. You paid for doing the work, the results are yours.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Agreed. Being a full time consultant/contractor I ALWAYS write into the contract that THEY own the code upon paying me. This includes releasing me from reliability.
However, from his question it doesn't sound like any of this is an issue.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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What does "own the code" mean? Can they sell the application to others?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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If you're an independent and are hire to write an app for someone/some company, and you're NOT an employee of the company, then it's called a Work For Hire. Since you own the original work, like a book author or a painting's artist, you own it.
Unless you specifically tell them otherwise, YOU own the code and they cannot sell it, modifiy it, or give it away.
Now they can certainly try to sue you, so it's better to create a contract - to spell out exactly who owns what and for how long. I ALWAYS relinquish ownership for non-proprietary portions of the app once they pay me.
All of this is spelled out in state law, so read up on it.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Yes indeed. The legal details vary from country to country. Getting clients (and their lawyers) to understand this is not always easy. This is also where escrow sometimes comes in. I tended to follow a similar practice to yours. As an independent developer keeping clients happy is always a priority.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Kevin Marois wrote: This includes releasing me from reliability.
I do think you meant "from liability" (?)
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Are you sure?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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