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> 75grand’s success was even met with jealousy from the college That's a common story; in my university (in Padova, UniPD) happened something even worse. They

> 75grand’s success was even met with jealousy from the college That's a common story; in my university (in Padova, UniPD) happened something even worse. They tried hard to shut down an unofficial app (Uniweb) that was installed by most of the students in favor of the "official" one, that was completely unusable (and probably was born out of a rigged contract). At the end the best one won and became official, but that was after a lot of struggle.

mtnGoat 2y ago
I’m just not sure jealousy is the correct word for this though. Most systems don’t like these kinds of things for a number us reasons.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  In my (perhaps limited) experience, most of those reasons are just different ways of spelling "our official solution is shit, because we don't care and/or make money in some underhanded way".
- wingerlang 2y ago
  I think the word usage is tongue in cheek
- klabetron 2y ago
  Agreed that I’m not sure jealousy is the right interpretation of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. Having said that, speaking as a Macalester alumnus, I wouldn’t put it past them to be a bit petty behind the scenes :)
mock-possum 2y ago
> They tried hard to shut down an unofficial app (Uniweb) that was installed by most of the students in favor of the "official" one, that was completely unusable Sounds like what happened with the Apollo app and Reddit
matheusmoreira 2y ago
My high school used a system so bad I stopped caring about my grades, I just didn't want to log into that crap more than once a year. I couldn't believe my eyes when I got into university and saw they were using the exact same shitty system. Reverse engineered just enough of that .net monstrosity to get the data I cared about. Replacing the school's portal with my own script made me so happy. They kept breaking my scraper constantly though, got to the point it was too much effort to maintain it. Worst part is I don't even think they were doing it on purpose. They were just bad in general and couldn't keep their site together.
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- 85392_school 2y ago
  I'm curious, what system was it? My school uses Synergy's stuff which sounds similar

mtnGoat 2y ago

I’m just not sure jealousy is the correct word for this though. Most systems don’t like these kinds of things for a number us reasons.

TeMPOraL 2y ago
In my (perhaps limited) experience, most of those reasons are just different ways of spelling "our official solution is shit, because we don't care and/or make money in some underhanded way".
wingerlang 2y ago
I think the word usage is tongue in cheek
klabetron 2y ago
Agreed that I’m not sure jealousy is the right interpretation of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. Having said that, speaking as a Macalester alumnus, I wouldn’t put it past them to be a bit petty behind the scenes :)

mock-possum 2y ago

> They tried hard to shut down an unofficial app (Uniweb) that was installed by most of the students in favor of the "official" one, that was completely unusable Sounds like what happened with the Apollo app and Reddit

matheusmoreira 2y ago

My high school used a system so bad I stopped caring about my grades, I just didn't want to log into that crap more than once a year. I couldn't believe my eyes when I got into university and saw they were using the exact same shitty system. Reverse engineered just enough of that .net monstrosity to get the data I cared about. Replacing the school's portal with my own script made me so happy. They kept breaking my scraper constantly though, got to the point it was too much effort to maintain it. Worst part is I don't even think they were doing it on purpose. They were just bad in general and couldn't keep their site together.

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85392_school 2y ago
I'm curious, what system was it? My school uses Synergy's stuff which sounds similar