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TSA paid $1.4 million for Randomizer app that chooses left or right
"$336,413.59 for an app that does nothing more than randomly select left or right a few hundred times an hour."

Don't know which is worse, that app or the $840,000,000 Obamacare webpage.


Probably the latter. If I was only a little crony with the Obamacare scam, I could still be filthy rich, whereas I'd need most of the TSA contract to get that way.
Either way I'd likely been able to deliver better warez than what the government received.

Left or right?.... hmmm.... metal detector or full body scan?

Wow, $840kk and 1.4 for helloword-app... In our country corruption overprices for similar cases are MUCH lower, but just because no such amount of money to waste

No, that's the value of the entire IBM blanket consulting application from 2013.

The actual left/right app was much less, only ~80K USD. That includes IBM
markup to cover a lot of people pushing paperwork and telling small lies, the
coffee bill at starbucks, that kind of thing.

I have a copy of the actual PO for the blanket time and materials contract.
HSTS03-13-J-CIO49. The whole contract was only $340K and that covered a lot of
people in suits sitting around talking and talking and talking. The actual software was
under 80K and isn't too bad for app development in that world.

...and dealing with PHBs and figuring out what color it should be and why it
isn't written in java and what it should look like = $47K. The actual app as such
was ~25k$, most of which went for time wasted explaining how to dumb it down
and making it "look cool" and doing testing.

The world would be very surprised if they learned it was prototyped in purebasic?

Thing is, it was cheaper (if you don't look very closely at tablet cost) to do this
than to install a bunch of red light/green light indicators like they use at the
borders. It's like the toilet seats for $600... it wasn't really a bad price and
everyone got paid.

The TSA aren't bad guys... they're just entertaining us until we get bored and find
something else to amuse ourselves with. I just wish they'd hired the guy who wrote
flappy birds. He could have totally done this app.