> Fortran on a Digital OpenVMS

Fortran on a Digital OpenVMS.... in 2020

> Fair access is not provided by the official website. When one clicks "Book" and then suddenly get an Internal Server Error in network logs (while UI shows in-progress icon) or gets logged out - where is Fair Access? If Railways gave 10 Rs for each such failure, they will go bankrupt within 2 hours. First-come-first-serve does not mean fair access when they can't fix their technical problems.

I am not sure if you know the history of IRCTC and why it is slow (at times. Things have vastly improved in the last decade). People have asked this many a times and their explanation does make some sense, that if IRCTC is super fast and efficient, then people with cash to spare/with computers and good internet access will hog all the tickets, denying people in rural areas a fair opportunity to purchase tickets. That is still probably true in 2020, because a good chunk of Indians in rural areas either do not have good internet connectivity, lack digital means of payment or are simply flummoxed by the online process.

From your perspective, IRCTC is not fair access because the servers slow down but from the govt perspective, fair access is not limited to only IRCTC users. There might be an argument that railways has a low capacity overall and that there is a long way to go for efficiency improvements etc but given my experience over last 12 years, the experience has improved drastically. Wait times have gone down considerably on a lot of trains, you no longer have to plan your travel 6 months in advance, you can buy tatkal tickets without paying scalpers etc. In 2018 I could even book tickets (from home) on a train which had already departed from its source station (my departure point was halfway between the origin and destination) and people around me did not believe that this was possible.

If you hire based on algorithms, there's a good chance you'll end up with a bunch of people who are good at algorithms, or at least willing to put in the effort to study the algorithms and be able to recite them back with some variance.

If you hire based on knowing how the the internet works (TLS, HTTP, BGP, whatever), then you'll be working with a bunch of people that understand how the internet works.

I know which team I'd rather join.

Fascinating. I had no bad the original function was, the intent behind such functions has completely changed (simple --> secure)

I imagine setting up an automotive company in the US is not inexpensive.

There is a lot of regulation involved, and then on top of that you need to price warranty repair and things like that into the cost, or they would go bankrupt immediately.

Yes, I agree with you and I wrote an article about Shopify speed optimization https://iliashaddad.com/blog/shopify-speed-optimization-step...

Is posting such baity non-journalism on here nowadays a way to farm karma?

This doesn't give anyone actual value, most of the things listed are common sense and if you use Google Maps, you are probably already aware of it. I'd wager that some people use Maps exactly because these features make it convenient.

Is this still an area you can generate some money selling themes or apps?