160k seems absurdly cheap for a tender of such importance. Itâll end up costing factors of thousands of that in the long run when this all plays out.
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Public service procurement processes normally take a lot longer so Iâd say multiple corners were cut
Iâve looked on etenders.gov.ie a few times and even the way the RFTâS are worded would have you backing away slowly
Disaster of a site.
Thatâs a scarily accurate conversation.
Do you think every person who works in software engineering could give you at least one Indian name that makes them shudder?
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Cancelling the Leaving Cert was some balls of a decision. Loads of space in schools to run it while maintaining social distance guidelines. All that was required was the hiring of extra supervisors.
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Whole thing give the lie to 40/50 years of the junior/inter cert doesnât matter.
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Yes.
It may not be Ashutoshâs fault. It could be further up the line with the person responsible for gathering the requirements and if they were wrong why did the department sign off on them.
Great idea Captain Hindsight.
Another pointless contribution from Smithers
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By God, calling my post pointless 
Iâm actually calling you pointless.
Itâs okay, Binky. Vent away but drop the Hindsight routine.
This is an interesting case. Identical twins are given identical expected marks by their teachers. One is downgraded, one isnât.
The whole thing is a bag of shite
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The Ashutosh Computer Generator.
Anyone with half a brain could tell at the time that dropping the leaving cert at short notice was going to be a disaster. Norma Foleyâs solution was to make sure the posh kids suffered more than the more traditional FF-background kids and to add in so many college places that the leaving would be a bit of a joke anyway.
Itâs mad whats gone on. I think weâve grown so used over the past few months to the country being run like a joke that weâre sort of numbers to how bad this is.
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My guess on this one is that Ashutosh marked one lad down because the âalgorithmâ didnât believe that this school could produce two 625 pointers. Of course the names being anonymised meant that the âalgorithmâ didnât realise they were identical twins and the first lad into the âalgorithmâ kept his marks and the second lad in was downgraded.
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One of these twins was on liveline yesterday
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A lot of folk seem to be buying that disingenuous âitâs 1 line out of 50,000 lines of codeâ excuse that I was ridiculing yesterday. Ah sure lookit, they were under fierce pressure (she delayed the results by 3 weeks to ensure it was right) and she admitted the error (a week later when AK47 brought it up during Leaderâs Questions). Nobodyâs saying it wasnât a difficult undertaking to get the predicted grades done, but these are really amateur errors that should have been identified at the first review stage.
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