We had very few programmers and limited funding, yet we had to do a lot before our competitors did. We've been at a dead sprint since the beginning.

For PHP, it's easy to find talent, as opposed to Java, where it's hard to get veterans rather than students.

There are times you're not going to have aircraft available because of limited funding or lack of crews,

The city has not yet committed to putting a millage on the ballot to support funding for the project,

Programmers can be lazy.

... bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with
sunken glowing eyes, can be seen sitting at computer consoles,
their arms tensed and waiting to fire their fingers, already poised
to strike, at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems
to be riveted as a gambler’s on the rolling dice. When not so
transfixed, they often sit at tables strewn with computer printouts
over which they pore like possessed students of a cabbalistic
text. They work until they nearly drop, twenty, thirty hours
at a time. Their food, if they arrange it, is brought to them:
coffee, Cokes, sandwiches. If possible, they sleep on cots near
the printouts. Their rumpled clothes, their unwashed and
unshaven faces, and their uncombed hair all testify that they are
oblivious to their bodies and to the world in which they move.
These are computer bums, compulsive programmers ...