• (disco) in reply to Blejzu

    I don't see that making fun of fouled up deployment is necessarily lamer than making fun of any other WTF.

    Also, since nobody else has said it yet: it was nice to see a WTF presented without a fifty metre layer of embellishments pasted on top.

  • (disco) in reply to Blejzu

    Let's make an experiment. Once, there was a company. They had a rather popular service, used by many people. And one day, during a maintenance, it went down. We know that this company have had problems in the past. PR guy announced that they're working on the problem and it should be fixed soon.

    To me it seems like business as usual and not a WTF. Because if you really consider it a WTF then we should have articles like this every day. Azure, Facebook, Linkedin, Netflix, etc, etc ad nauseam.

    Stupid bugs and snippets of code are funny. Stupid people are funny. Deployments fouled up in a stupid or terrible way are funny. Sorry, but this one is neither stupid nor funny.

  • (disco) in reply to Blejzu
    Blejzu:
    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.

    Next time you'll tell me that the whole Christ of Nations thing we had going in the 1800s was made up too.

    Blejzu:
    PR guy announced that they're working on the problem and it should be fixed soon.

    Not a WTF.

    PR guy announces that they're testing a totally different version of webpage, which makes the main page not work - that's a WTF.

  • (disco) in reply to Blejzu
    Blejzu:
    this one is neither stupid nor funny

    You don't think testing in production at the busiest time of year is stupid?

    Where do you work? Asking for a friend.

  • (disco) in reply to Scarlet_Manuka

    Well.. Let's start with simple facts:

    1. ePUAP is not used during tax season. It's a platform for sending documents to Polish government. Some documents, not all of them. And you can send them via post or go directly. So it's not like people were cut off from the gov.
    2. Article mentioned in the WTF comes from the kontak24 which is a user-driven site - not a reporter driven. People send an information via text or email which is then quickly verified (or not) by a not-the-sharpest-pencil-in-the-box reporter. So the articles tend to be a little bit too ... colourful and over-hyped? Currently the top-stories are about a fake witch hanging on a tree and moose loose in a city :)
    3. I checked on proper news-sites and the PR quote wasn't anywhere else. And his quote may be interpreted as "We're working on a new version of the system. Current version is undergoing maintenance and we're testing if it's working fine.". All other sites were reporting this issue as a downtime caused by a authentication module failure.

    And yes, Polish Messianism is a fact. Or rather a period in our literature created after failed uprising and promoted by few crazy sods who emigrated to France and had nothing else to do.

  • (disco) in reply to Scarlet_Manuka

    Oh, and testing in production at the busiest time of the year is stupid. But is it really WTF-stupid? To be worthy of WTF they should do something spectacular. Like replace ePUAP with Facebook or delete all records from ZUS. That would be something. But this? This one is just a fouled-up upgrade or a plain error.

  • (disco) in reply to Blejzu
    Blejzu:
    Oh, and testing in production at the busiest time of the year is stupid. But is it really WTF-stupid?
    It is. Knowing the busiest time of the year their site is being used is their job, kurwa ich mać.
    Blejzu:
    Like replace ePUAP with Facebook or delete all records from ZUS.
    ZUS is a major WTF in and of itself, and no one bats an eye...
  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Perhaps it can encourage you to maintain the continuity of the culture that presumably did something worth being proud of.

    You got it wrong. You identify with a culture so that if/when you do achieve something, or make some real good shit, it becomes the culture's legacy, and people can be proud of it.

    Or you don't muck around much with this culture thingy, and just try to make nice shit while you're alive, and let the history take care of it when you're busy being decomposed.

  • (disco) in reply to wft
    wft:
    You got it wrong. You identify with a culture so that if/when you do achieve something, or make some real good shit, it becomes the culture's legacy, and people can be proud of it.

    I suggest both what you wrote and what I wrote apply. A rational person would want to be part of a good culture.

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