Re:Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Depart...
by tptacek on Friday October 30, 2015 @07:33PM
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What kind of messages? What kind of highlighting? What's a specific use case you were targeting? (I'm sure there was one! I just see too many of us speculating about it.)
Re:Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Depart...
by timclemans on Friday October 30, 2015 @07:43PM
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The messages were by dispatchers. I'll give you an example, shortly after the center was no longer allowed to the app, someone called 911 and claimed his car had been shot. A dispatcher put it down as rock hit the car. A higher up told me that had my app been in used the Chief Dispatcher would have been alerted because they all had keywords for shot, shooting, etc. This is the only tool to see all messages for everything at once. I even asked them if they would like to hide messages and they said no.
Re:Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Depart...
by x1798DE on Friday October 30, 2015 @08:10PM
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Hey, sorry to derail, but I've been meaning to get back in touch with you, totally weird to see you here. Email me at [email protected] and I'll explain.
Re:Programmer Tim Clemans Resigns from Seattle Police Depart...
by teyc on Friday October 30, 2015 @10:08PM
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Enterprise software is hard not because writing it is hard, but the multitude of stakeholders that you have to convince and have a buy-in before it would even pass muster. However, you are brimming with good ideas, if Seattle doesn't want your ideas, there are enough police departments in the world that you'll find someone who is willing to try new things.
The meeting was scheduled by the director of IT at the time, a former Amazon VP who left two weeks after this incident, about how to allow me to continue developing apps like this. He was trying to put structure about it. The Captain wanted none of it.