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I once had a brief contract helping out a two-person Rails consultancy where pretty much all they did was follow RailsCasts. They got very angry at me several
by busterarm 6y ago
I once had a brief contract helping out a two-person Rails consultancy where pretty much all they did was follow RailsCasts.
They got very angry at me several times for not doing things "the Rails way". We were on Rails 4, which I already had loads of experience with. The RailsCasts they were following were written for Rails 2. They literally had no idea all of the ways Rails had moved on between those versions.
Their codebase was an absolute mess as well. This was an application that was supposed to contain medical records and it had broken routes that were leaking data everywhere unauthenticated. And they were mad that I spent two weeks cleaning all of that up and bulletproofing their application.
I was happy to move on from that one, but it taught me a lesson about just how valuable sales skills are. These two people were living a comfortable lifestyle off a single paying client (essentially getting money indirectly through DARPA) and were punching way above their weight technically.
- spaetzleesser 6y agoWith the right connections you can have a very comfortable life with receiving grants from DARPA. I used to work for a startup founded by ex DARPA guys and it quickly showed that there was an insider club of current and former DARPA people that lived off grants.
- neatze 6y agoI was told long time ago that without being "insider" I will never get direct access to NYSE and will be able to make money by doing so, proved them wrong, while there is "insider club" in NYSE, to degree there same "insider club" for DARPA or any other enterprise/organizations. I think interesting questions is; to what degree insider club introduces friction for new comers with justified novel proposals.
- spaetzleesser 6y agoGood for you! Nobody is saying that it’s impossible for an outsider to get access to NYSE or to DARPA. I just said that there are arp ton of insiders who like to hand contracts and grants to each other.
- neatze 6y agoFor example, trust plays factor too from PM perspective at DARPA, it is not all conspiracy.
- spaetzleesser 6y agoThis is not about conspiracy. It’s just a comfy Insiders club like many others.
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- busterarm 6y agoI 110% believe you :D
- piokoch 6y agoWhy "government founded grants", "medical software", "incompetence", "very profitable" and "data leaks" are always magically joined together...
- busterarm 6y agoIt gets much more interesting than that... The field itself is a poorly understood area of medicine. By that I mean, it's only about 50 years old and no two doctors practice alike. It's science, but nobody has consistent repeatable steps that seem to be conclusive beyond their own individual labs. The treatments are extraordinarily expensive. I'll leave it at that because I'd prefer not to give identifying details (even though I basically have), but really the whole thing was eye-opening for me.