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Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
> To be fair, while the html may take 5 min, there might have to be a lot of
> code behind it to get the data to display and process the input, if any.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#69 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#71 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#72 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#74 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers

I sized the spec and estimated $30k tops ... that included tripling base
estimate for contingency, all the programming, data, integration, and
extensive regression testing. $10M was 1000 times the base estimate (w/o
three times contingency). They had existing DBMS for large number of
items and this was effectively just adding two more items.

I'd seen other things that was $10M ... it was like beltway bandit
overhead was minimum nearly $10M regardless of scope of project.

we had done the consulting for backend dataprocessing for 2000 census
effectively for free ... when they were audited, I had to stand up in
front of the room and answer questions all day. april 1997 the 20yr old
stuff was rolled out and the new stuff rolled in to start testing.

then we tried to do something similar for VA medical backend
dataprocessing ... had meeting with the head staffer on the hill for the
VA. They had just come off a failed dataprocessing modernization effort
and was gearing up for a couple billion dollar effort (that would also
fail). Turns out offering to do something essentially for free is one of
the most threatening things to beltway bandits ... roll out lobbying big
time ...  there are some articles about congress is really cheap date
and best ROI investment going (isn't calculated in percent since that
just adds two extraneous digits to an already large number). One
explanation is that congress isn't dealing with its own money.

trivia: somebody posted two days ago that walmart was advertising gamer
i7 for $150000 ... aka somebody had dropped the decimal point for cents.

more trivia: ten years ago one of the major presidential campaign
promise/claim was to reverse the enormous increase in gov outsourcing
that had occurred since the turn of the century. Turns out that they
didn't reverse it ... only managed to significantly slow down the
incease.  one explanation is appropriations for gov. agencies can't come
back to congress (illegal to lobby) ... and corporations also can't use
money from gov. contracts to lobby (recent case of corporation with
hanford cleanup contract lobbying congress) ... but private equity
owners of beltway bandits appear to be under no such restrictions (on
behalf of companies they own) ... I've read claims that members of
congress expect something like 5% of such appropriations.

"success of failure" article
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
"success of failure" posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure
private-equity posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity.

past posts mentioning 2000 census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#16 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#21 Methods of payment
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#43 Methods of payment
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#63 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#92 Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#21 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#56 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#11 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#98 ACA (Obamacare) website problems--article
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#37 OT this guy salary one dollar
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#18 FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#12 Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#76 GLBA & Glass-Steagall
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#71 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#89 The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#0 Census processing, 1950

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