[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret th...
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       Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most?
        
       Given the very interesting comments on the "Ask HN: What is the
       most impactful thing you've built?", I was wondering about
       something similar: Things you regret based on ethical implications,
       bad technical decisions you made convinced you were right but
       regret/cringe about later, failures on miscalculations on budgets
       that provoked a bad outcome in the company etc whatever.  Thanks in
       advance.
        
       Author : Octabrain
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-11-19 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | momoelz wrote:
       | I have wasted a lot of time building a two sided marketplace for
       | gigs, that was the biggest thing i regret, that i kept trying for
       | much too long of a time
        
       | hnanon22 wrote:
       | The Qatar slave helmet.
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       | My company built the smart helmet used to track Qatar's army of
       | abused workers. The claim is GPS and accelerometer where used to
       | track if a worker stopped moving or fell due to an accident; the
       | geo fencing was supposedly for tracking if they had enough
       | workers in an area for the job.
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       | The reality is the helmets where/are used as mass surveillance
       | tech to ensure workers are continuously active and never leave
       | their assigned areas for petty things like going to the bathroom
       | or finding shade to prevent heat stroke.
        
         | andrei_says_ wrote:
         | What is the official name of that product?
        
         | whatwherewhy wrote:
         | Eh... Was it really that hard to guess what they're gonna do
         | with it? How long ago was that? It's not like their abuse of
         | [foreign] workers is anything new.
        
           | hnanon22 wrote:
           | 7-8 years ago. I was a lot more naive back then and knew very
           | little about any of the Middle East petro states.
        
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