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So, business as usual for former Soviet-bloc countries, no?
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Ah! This brings back so many bittersweet memories from a forgotten millenium...
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And there was me thinking this was Government SOP. E.g. DVLA introduces paperless paper counterpart of UK Driving License, and any NHS System
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...and here in Poland Application tests you!
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Estonia seems to get some things right:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/02/estonia/
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Nyet, tovarishch. Estonia has a really good IT infrastructure and so, I believe, has Slovenia. I suspect that this is just a case of ordinary corruption and pork barrel, the thing that has led to the collapse of many IT projects in both the US and the UK.
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"There's nothing alarming about it."
Does that sound to you like it was written by one of the developers tasked with explaining to a wild-eyed project manager who has suddenly been hit between the eyes by the realisation that the damn thing don't work?
"No, we are not coming in at the weekend just to sort out the stupid problems caused by your database guy. Not my fault that damn fool Andrzej Jarembdzewiekjewski forgot the "where" clause in his delete."
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Hey, I know the guy!
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Nah! There is only one J and it scores 8 points :laughing:
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Is there a special Polish edition, where the j's k's i's and z's are like e's?
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Actually, yes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions#Polish
Z and I score the same as E, though Ź scores 9. K scores 2, J scores 3.
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Does not compute picture != text :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Just to make it clear, I am not attributing this bug to @Yamikuronue
Unless, of course, somebody wants to make it a QA Issue :trollface:
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you'll have to contact Wikipedia's QA department ;)
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Bullshit! You cannot use ePUAP (pl) to send your tax report. The taxes are done on a completely different platform, that needs an electronic signature for companies OR your income in the previous tax year for humans (which is much easier than getting a Trusted Profile).
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HELL YEAH!
You sure told them!
(Do people simply not understand what this site is about? WTF.)
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Maybe they just failed at spelling JOZYXQE?
Filed under: I'll let myself out now...
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Smeg!, That's gotta hurt :wink:
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Apparently, the functionality is there, but they won't accept it for some reason.
Or something. It's Poland, there's nothing simple and straightforward here.
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Just had a peek at the URL :smile:
What are the chances that a random bash on the keyboard i.e. http://kldf-na-ikjvasl.pl would get a hit?
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You'll want to take this up with Czechs and Slovaks. We Poles do use a vowel once in a while.
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With the stars in there? Probably zero.
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Seems Discourse has some form of precedence ruling about link content, before content styling - or something like that.
There FTFY, although you might have to view the RAW to see the FIX
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And this article is WTF why exactly? Except for yet another rant on Poland and Gov IT Infrastructure it's not really that interesting. You're quoting a PR guy who, most probably, knows nothing about IT. Downtime during maintenance/upgrade is nothing unexpected. And let's think for a minute about amount of data, servers and resources needed to support ePUAP.
Someone mentioned Estonia. Are we really comparing country with 38 million people living in it with Estonia and it's population smaller then capital of Warsaw? Please...
I mean... ePUAP's downtime is a problem but certainly it's not a WTF. Ekhem healthcare.gov ekhem anyone? :)
Disclaimer: I'm not involved in any way with ePUAP, just tired of rants coming from know-it-all student.
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That it was down because they were testing things in production was a WTF. And feel free to write up an article on healthcare.gov…
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If you like your broken web page, you can keep your broken web page.
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Look, I tried really hard to stuff cyber-ninjas in there.
Ahem. A know-it-all graduate now.
Also, it's not my rant. I'm just the make-up guy here.
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They probably just deployed the wrong .zip file. It happens.
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As my Russian teacher says, Slavonic is like Russian but without the vowels. I guess there is a continuum from vowel-heavy Romania (which isn't a Russian group language) to the Serbs, or Srps.
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Quote from Google Translate: "We do not know how long it will last inconvenience to users of the system. The new version ePUAP platform is to be presented soon. - It will be better, more efficient with new services - says Goat."
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A lot of Polish people (such as the author of this article) have no national pride or patriotism. That's one of the reasons I left Poland.
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I don't quite follow that reasoning. While it is true you might find fewer Poles outside of Poland without patriotism, wouldn't you also find fewer Poles outside of Poland with patriotism?
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So in the name of patriotism, you fucked off the country. That... makes sense. Somehow.
Also, I personally never got the whole "national pride" thing. Those are not your achievements. The only claim to them you have is that you happened to be born in roughly the same place as the people who actually achieved something. What, exactly. is there to be proud of?
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I don't know exactly what percentage of patriotic Poles is, broken down by their location, but I'm going to rephrase: in my opinion Polish people should really be more patriotic and have more national pride. That means fixing their problems, and not laughing at them at forums like this one.
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Because that worked out so well for them in WW2. If thinking Poles learned anything from WW2 it is the truth of Einstein's dictum - "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." That's one reason why today they are strong supporters of the EU.
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Perhaps it can encourage you to maintain the continuity of the culture that presumably did something worth being proud of.
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Given the country Einstein came from and the era he came from it, it was probably especially wise of him to feel that way. Poles, not so much.
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I'm glad you realize "patriotic" is a boolean.
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It can be coerced into a boolean.
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Fine enough - but that doesn't explain why people should root for their own culture, instead of the one they feel achieved the most.
How does "fixing our shit" follow from "national pride"? Why can't we mock failed attempts to fix our shit by people who get paid for it? Do you realize this is a humor site?
Our POLAND STRONK mentality has bit us in the ass quite a few times over the course of history. Let's just say that "sabres against tanks" was a particularly believable piece of propaganda for a reason.
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Sadly, it is also my observation that a lot of Poles are foul-mouthed a**holes.
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And, as you'd like us to, proud of it.
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"Man, it's great to be Assyrian. Oh, wait, I'm not one of them." Seems a weird thing, is all.
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The worst nationalism of all for Europe has actually been that of Serbia. This small country precipitated WW1 by its expansionism, leading to WW2, and then did it all over again in the 1990s, though this time without a world war. Serbian nationalism has been at the root of the worst European wars of the 20th century, and yet it's largely based on near-fictitious history.
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I'd say the WTF is planning your downtime at the same time everyone is accessing the system. That's a pretty big WTF...
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Filed under: We couldn't complete all the testing over a weekend, so we decided to do the rest at the busiest possible time, and also not have a rollback strategy
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This is a humor site, I agree. Some posts are just funnier then others. But making fun of fouled up deployment is pretty lame.
People tend to believe any shit they read in the papers, especially when it's backed up by Nazi and Communism Governments. I think you're missing the point of POLAND STRONK meme. Don't mistake patriotism for stupid nationalism that uses the flag as a reason for kicking the shit out of people.