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> The CBO’s cost Dec. 2020 estimate to build the new system was in the mid-two-digit millions, though given the fees that the AO is collecting from power users
by kevinsundar 5y ago
> The CBO’s cost Dec. 2020 estimate to build the new system was in the mid-two-digit millions, though given the fees that the AO is collecting from power users and agencies, the appropriation would more likely need to be in the single-digit millions, at most.
What? Double digit millions for a CRUD app for public information?
- nojito 5y agoBecause the scale of PACER is absolutely insane.
- throwawaygh 5y ago> Because the scale of PACER is absolutely insane. ...is it, though? It's fucking 2021. Interns play with petabytes. Literally. CRUD on massive datasets is not a hard problem anymore. Or, at least, isn't eight digits and 10 years hard.
- recursive 5y ago> Interns play with petabytes. Literally. Most interns don't. Most industry veterans don't either.
- throwawaygh 5y agoMost interns and industry veterans don't write wordpress plugins either ;-) The point is that you can learn enough of the basics to do useful things in 3 months with minimal prior experience. Working with petabytes of data isn't a "hard" problem like it was 10 years ago. IDK how large PACER is, and I'm not suggesting that an intern could implement a new system, but $x0,000,000 and a decade of lead time is at least an order of magnitude off.