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If the customer has nuclear weapons, then the customer has magnitudes more money in their couch cushions than would be required to pay to have this functionalit
by qzw 5y ago
If the customer has nuclear weapons, then the customer has magnitudes more money in their couch cushions than would be required to pay to have this functionality implemented. For that matter, they’re probably paying Bill Long’s employer some significant chunk of change, and it would be easy for them to offer to pay for this functionality. But it’s free/oss software, so let’s just keep bugging the maintainers instead.
- drjasonharrison 5y agoI think Bill Long needs to be added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Long Done.
- layer8 5y agoAnd already undone due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages#Red_links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Disa... .
- 8bitsrule 5y agoUseful info can be added to disambiguation pages without any links "if doing so will be more helpful to readers..." (See "ignore all rules".) In this case, that info probably wasn't useful ;-|
- rat9988 5y agoWhy would you do such a lowly thing?
- ridethebike 5y agoIn practice it's also very likely that customer mind boggling amount of bureaucracy, allocating extra penny might require approval from several committees.
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoUsually most customers, even government, have different thresholds, where something under, say, $25k takes very few levels of management approval.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoI recall buying $50-60k worth of hardware at one of my previous employers, with only 2 signatures required, both of which I was able to obtain within the space of an afternoon.
- colejohnson66 5y agoWas that employer working with the government? Government contracts are notorious for bureaucracy and bean countering.
- sklargh 5y agoSo notorious that the US government has special vehicles to avoid their own procurement processes!
- numbsafari 5y agoI’ve made proposals to state universities for $20k software projects that required a vote in the state legislature for approval. Moved on to other projects until after the next legislative session, and the period after where the bureaucracy makes it all happen, then we actually scheduled a start date that was 3 months later, since that was how long it took to get all the resources back from other projects. Government isn’t run like a household, nor like a business, nor should it be.
- throwaway19937 5y agoAre you willing to name the company? The ability to move that fast is an attractive quality for an employer.
- sgt101 5y ago
- mhh__ 5y agoI wouldn’t because I know better but if I’m reading the tone of the comment correctly I would seriously consider responding “you have nuclear weapons? Great. Fuck off”. Again, don’t say that, but you’re right that they should either bounty it or do the damn patch themselves.
- wellthisisgreat 5y agoIt is infuriating to see a ome contractor flexing their client’s powers while showing zero interest to support the vital element of their contract.
- anilakar 5y agoThe customer has already paid many more magnitudes of money than the software engineers will ever see, but it has already been spent by the contractor on dividends and execs' mansions.