Paying 420€ per month at most for comprehensive healthcare and 49€ per month for regional/urban public transportation nationwide is really a chore.
And additionally, I even have to live with the burden of getting my master's degree almost for free! It's horrible over here! I can barely enjoy my 30 vacation days thinking about the situation!
I'm just playing around with it on my home server, and yes, it does get annoying sometimes.
The whole system is far from being perfect, but I'm hoping for a mixture of learning on my side and improvements on the system's side.
I'm trying to justify that in my head, but the only idea that I have is that "old" hard drives couldn't handle the vibrations of a train. But flash existed even back then, and floppies aren't exactly known for their high capacity.
But, at least in theory, you'll only do it once.
I think you don't understand. It's not about "physically reached the machine under the desk" it's "was processed correctly by a system". Operations can only tell if a technical error occurred, they have no idea what the data is supposed to look like. So dataport can do jack shit.
IT de facto already is outsourced, there's hardly any internal IT left, simply because the pay is shit. I'd get at least 1k less after taxes if I'd do the same work for the agency, not a contractor.
And if you think his joke is funny in this context, it's not. I work with these agencies everyday. They are structurally broken, but most people there are really passionate about what they're doing.
It's not genocide if you don't consider the victims human!
Check mate, atheists.
That won't change a thing, unfortunately.
My employer currently works with a bunch of agencies and I've been involved with some of them. I can deliver the best product ever with the best process and lightning fast deployment - if the client doesn't get its shit together, you won't deliver on time/in budget.
Anecdote I'm currently part of: an agency bought a new app, we're 98% done, we could go live on Tuesday. But there's one agency/department/guy (I seriously don't know) who has to confirm that the data of our staging system reached their system and was processed correctly. This agency however doesn't react. At all. And because it's something like 5mm outside of the jurisdiction of the agency that is our direct client, there's nothing we can do. So the system is just sitting there waiting.
I could go on and on. Dataport is a good idea, but if all their clients are overworked, understaffed or straight up incompetent, there's not much they could do.
You never worked with bureaucracy, did you?
From a technical standpoint, you are absolutely correct, but reality and bureaucracy don't always match.
I've had instances, where we had glaring holes in our security, but were not allowed to fix them, because the datacenter (operated by a public agency) only does deployment in a fixed schedule.
I've had officials of some sort who wrote in the contract, that each and every change has to be on the staging environment for at least one week for testing and signoff.
It's absurd and stupid, but realistically, you often can't change it.
I can see the appeal of a fully self-driving Apple car. Something like a sleek little electric car, that takes the burden of actually driving away from you.
And looking back, 10 years ago (when this apparently started) self-driving cars seemed to be just around the corner and a huge market. So I can kind of see the idea behind it.
Jeans are somehow on a completely different plain of existence. They've been somewhat fashionable for decades and all in all, haven't changed that much. They got tighter and wider, higher and lower, but still more or less the same.
Wore. Past tense.
Barely any. It's a shame.