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Most involved data conversion and software bugs. I tried to book a haircut using my barber’s new online reservation thing. Of course it was all fucked up. Eve

Most involved data conversion and software bugs. I tried to book a haircut using my barber’s new online reservation thing. Of course it was all fucked up. Everything’s fucked up and no one cares. I wonder what it will take to change the mentality around quality/testing in these companies.

whitepoplar 8y ago
Most businesses just don't seem to respect good/working tech. Even though it's often critical to their bottom line, they'll think "$5,000?! My idiot nephew could do it for $100. Those coder monkeys think what they do is soooo hard as to charge $5,000?? Ha! Look, this guy here says he can do it for $250." <1 year later> "I hate tech and every techie. They think they're god's gift to humanity. My system never works. I paid good money for it" ($250). I think the corporate equivalent to that is, "It costs what?! Outsource it overseas right now!"
- spydum 8y ago
  I don’t believe this is exactly right: the major problem is most businesses can’t distinguish which techies are worth $250 or $5,000 up front. So they make the choice of going cheap and hoping it works out. Some of the few do go the premium route, and still end up in a project failure or overrun. So can you fault them?
  - whitepoplar 8y ago
    You're right, but I think the general disdain for tech/techies is upstream of their inability to distinguish. Though it's a huge, huge problem trying to identify who/what is worth it and who/what isn't.
- hnbroseph 8y ago
  and then there's the "consulting" firms that will charge you the premium 5000 then turn around and outsource for 250.
  - whitepoplar 8y ago
    ...or for $150.
- imroot 8y ago
  Marriott did outsource their development of the migrated SPG+MI marriott.com.
acheron 8y ago
Yeah my barber has a shitty online reservation thing too. In that case, it’s that their JavaScript nonsense craps out if it can’t load Facebook. Since I block things like third party Facebook scripts, it never loads. I can manually use the JavaScript console to get past it and it works fine.

whitepoplar 8y ago

Most businesses just don't seem to respect good/working tech. Even though it's often critical to their bottom line, they'll think "$5,000?! My idiot nephew could do it for $100. Those coder monkeys think what they do is soooo hard as to charge $5,000?? Ha! Look, this guy here says he can do it for $250." <1 year later> "I hate tech and every techie. They think they're god's gift to humanity. My system never works. I paid good money for it" ($250). I think the corporate equivalent to that is, "It costs what?! Outsource it overseas right now!"

spydum 8y ago
I don’t believe this is exactly right: the major problem is most businesses can’t distinguish which techies are worth $250 or $5,000 up front. So they make the choice of going cheap and hoping it works out. Some of the few do go the premium route, and still end up in a project failure or overrun. So can you fault them?
- whitepoplar 8y ago
  You're right, but I think the general disdain for tech/techies is upstream of their inability to distinguish. Though it's a huge, huge problem trying to identify who/what is worth it and who/what isn't.
hnbroseph 8y ago
and then there's the "consulting" firms that will charge you the premium 5000 then turn around and outsource for 250.
- whitepoplar 8y ago
  ...or for $150.
imroot 8y ago
Marriott did outsource their development of the migrated SPG+MI marriott.com.

acheron 8y ago

Yeah my barber has a shitty online reservation thing too. In that case, it’s that their JavaScript nonsense craps out if it can’t load Facebook. Since I block things like third party Facebook scripts, it never loads. I can manually use the JavaScript console to get past it and it works fine.