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sumukh1 on Nov 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Applicat...

The app itself was outsourced. Someone else did the development, a company that caters to the government put in the work to do the bidding. Money just happened to fall between the crack.

BTW I looked at the code, and there's nothing that an average iOS (and probably Android) developer couldn't do in 4-6 hours.

gte910h on Nov 22, 2011 [–]

And finding out exactly what they want done, and documenting it could have taken weeks.

Also, where is the code?

sumukh1 on Nov 22, 2011 | [–]

That is true, but in an ideal world, it shouldn't.

You can get it from MuckRock or from OSHA's own site. http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/united-states-of-america/so...

They provided it 20 days ago, so no idea why the author mentioned that it wasn't available.

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