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There are lots of managed services to do this of course but I figured it would be a useful learning exercise. And it was
Needless to say existing taxi drivers weren't very happy as a lot of them had paid around €100,000 for their license. They were effectively worthless after deregulation.
All this was great news for consumers of course. Before deregulation it was practically impossible to get a taxi in Dublin on weekend nights. I can recall queuing for hours in the cold and wet for the privilege of being dropped home.
The taxi drivers mightn't like deregulation but you can't hold the general public to ransom by operating a closed market. Of course the government should have handled the whole thing better by doing some sort of deal with the drivers who'd paid so much for licences thinking it was a long term investment.
Absolutely agree. I think what irked the OP was that the rocket scientist was putting off getting married or becoming a dad because he didn't want the financial responsibility. Obviously we don't know if this was a priority of his but if it was he wasn't doing himself any favours by just giving away his valuable skills.
Leaving aside the subject I really like the writing in this post. He created some great imagery. Good Friday reading.
I can certainly sympathise with the OP and the older generation of programmers but I can't help feel that it's more a case of standing on the shoulders of giants. If we're to forever tinker (even if it is fun) with basic electronics or low level programming we'd have a hard time making any progress. As painful as it is I find it best to accept that something is black-box and just work with it, warts and all. Having said that, it's really useful to have the source code for the frameworks/libraries you're working with. Delving into it is similar in ways to the tinking the OP speaks about.