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WTF Delaware?
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Re: WTF Delaware?
#52Incidentally, you could just do:
* {
pointer-events: none !important;
}
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#53I can't pay my "greatly reduced taxes because I am a Delaware corp" in two seconds! Imagine if you had real problems.
Competition among states that want business is a good thing at the core though.
Delaware and Nevada want to attract business so they have better prices. Regulation and law allow it, and this is healthy to have states competing for business.
If this competition did not exist state licenses and taxes would be like paying for broadband from one provider and probably thousands a year to license instead of $300 and taxes would be immense.
Small business especially already pays higher taxes so really any advantage given to small business really helps the economy as a whole even if that means lower taxes by registering in another state. The only way to fight the market is with regulation or competition, the latter always means cheaper prices and will allow more small business.
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#54> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.” I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog. The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover). The only other business I've seen do this w…
I'm a grad student at Tufts, and our online course registration app does this (called "SIS"). You can only register for classes during some time period: 8am to 6pm, I think. It's crazy. Tufts recently hired a huge team to "fix" SIS. It's now called iSIS and you can tell it's still using SIS underneath. (The HTML markup returned is the exact same as before, but it's dressed up a little nicer.) Nuts.
God I hated this when I was at Tufts. But its far from the only university system to do this. I suspect a middleware vendor somewhere.
Re: WTF Delaware?
#55There are sometimes reasons for odd stuff like this. We take our tax payment system offline for a short period every day for several reasons. First, the actual system that stores the data is on ancient system where the database needs to be shut down to do backups. Most the system was written in the early 90's, and we hope to replace it soon, but it is easier said than done. (We tried once, and lost close to $1m when the vendor folded 2 years into the migration) The second reason is if you begin your transaction at 11:55 the system calculates your amount owed based on the day the transactions begins, but if the transaction doesn't complete until 12:01 then (in the case of late payments) the amount paid is inaccurate with regard to penalty and interest. Technically we're not allowed to take partial payments, so we have to do some silly things to ensure that we follow the law (we would have more control if we processed credit cards internally, but that is done by a payment processor.) So while I know nothing about Delaware, I can sympathize with building systems like this inside of government rules.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Canada Revenue Agency's web apps are closed overnight too (albeit only for 3 hours). My understanding from talking to one of their sysadmins is that they use this time to perform backups and software upgrades because it's less error-prone than trying to do those "live".
They also only support IE. (Or at least they did last year.) You can also find some documentation speaking about Netscape. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ntcs/scrty_tls-eng.html
I've never had any problems using using Chrome on the CRA website.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no money to "fix" and IT system that "works". Think of the children you'll be taking money from to pay for this non-essential work. Why yes, I have been in THAT meeting, just not in Delaware.
Shit like this makes my blood boil.
The true blood boiler is when the system finally collapses and IT gets hit with the "why didn't you fix this before it collapsed"-lecture from the same folks who wouldn't give you the budget to fix it in the first place.
This is generally followed by the hiring of some consulting firm to propose the solution you wanted budget for at a fair multiple of the original budget. They, after all, are consultants and you are a peon.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a grad student at Tufts, and our online course registration app does this (called "SIS"). You can only register for classes during some time period: 8am to 6pm, I think. It's crazy. Tufts recently hired a huge team to "fix" SIS. It's now called iSIS and you can tell it's still using SIS underneath. (The HTML markup returned is the exact same as before, but it's dressed up a little nicer.) Nuts.
God I hated this when I was at Tufts. But its far from the only university system to do this. I suspect a middleware vendor somewhere.
Oh, most definitely.
I was at Worcester State before Tufts, and part of their registration had to be done via paper (in person at the registrar). It was almost as convenient as these online systems... (Assuming I was on campus anyway.)
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Way to totally miss the article's point. Yes, as I write this, people are getting stabbed, shot, raped, killed by cancer, and mangled in car wrecks. And that's way worse than having to hassle with a broken web site. But there are people reading this board who can actually build functional web sites, and who are appalled that the government managed to mess up so badly. That's the point.
The entitled have trouble with reading comprehension. The site was explicitly closed during certain hours, sadly probably because the data is verified by hand. He is whining that he doesn't like the hours.
No, that was just a side effect of digging into an issue with the site that was preventing me from paying a tax. I didn't even know about that odd schedule.
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#60> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.” I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog. The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover). The only other business I've seen do this w…
It's quite common in Japan for ATMs to only operate during business hours. The Japanese are world-class experts at implementing technology in ways that completely negate its core value.
That's half of the story. The other half is the ATM is not just refusing to operate, it's behind closed doors to protect it from potential aggressions. Japanese bank are sharply close to their core values (keep the money).