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0 pointsLurkingPenguin4y ago0 comments

> You think Taiwan is any different than us? They're ahead of us, and if they're fucking this up, we're doing it ten-fold.

Well, I'm a resident of Taiwan and while I think there are many wonderful things about the country, IT is not one of them and not sure how you came to the conclusion that Taiwan is "ahead of us" (assuming you're American or European).

Everything related to tech here feels like it's from the late 1990s. Web applications here generally have horrible UIs and are buggy, sometimes to the point of being basically unusable.

It's not just the front end either. See: all of the problems caused by a change to the ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4293836

This change was itself caused by problems created by the existing/old system.

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momofarm4y ago

quick explain to non-Taiwan guy: ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers is like social IDs(SSN). It (was) a separate system to our local resident one, until then.

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0 pointsLurkingPenguin4y ago0 comments

> You think Taiwan is any different than us? They're ahead of us, and if they're fucking this up, we're doing it ten-fold.

Everything related to tech here feels like it's from the late 1990s. Web applications here generally have horrible UIs and are buggy, sometimes to the point of being basically unusable.

It's not just the front end either. See: all of the problems caused by a change to the ARC (alien resident certificate) ID numbers.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4293836

This change was itself caused by problems created by the existing/old system.