So here's an example of several hours of time wasted for want of YourFirst Rails application: we need a piece of paper for delivering baby.
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Hospital wants to confirm insurance cover. National insurance will happily cover, but because deliveries are expensive, there is Process.
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Step one of process is "I copy a bunch of information off my insurance card, including public key on database table, and send in."
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Someone then recopies all the information (which they already had) into the computer. Next step: they want my tax status for last year.
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We have now involved 2 people at the hospital, 2 accountants, one insurance clerk, myself, my wife, and another member of my day job.
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We report the tax status but they want to verify it with another government agency, which will not simply run the SQL query for them.
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No, they want us to go in to authorize them to run the SQL query and encode the results in a paper document, because APIs are hard to spell.
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So we write down a bunch of information both agencies already know onto a form, and it is typed back into a computer, and then roadblocked:
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"Well we can't just hand your tax status to your wife. That might be unauthorized. We have to confirm it with you." "CONFIRMED."
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"Oh no we need you to come in to authorize it. There's a form." My running total is that this single piece of paper has now cost ~$1.5k.
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That last bit makes sense. A signature from you avoids "he said he authorized this" "no I didn't" problems.
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