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by Gud 110 days ago
Why does a person need to be disciplined because they made a mistake?
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bookofjoe 110 days ago
A couple years ago I was at the Virginia DMV along with about 50 other people doing DMV things when all of a sudden someone comes out from the back and gets in front of all the service windows and announces "The DMV is now closed for the day due to a computer problem. Please leave now."

Some of the people in that crowd had driven hours to get there.

That's why the person who made the coding error should have been disciplined.

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Gud 110 days ago
How do you determine it was the person who had done the "coding error"s fault?

Sounds to me they are seriously underfunded and you are pointing the blame at an individual in a systemic issue.

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bookofjoe 106 days ago
5 things:

1. https://www.stonkys.com/ is a bold creation: congratulations

2. white on black is harder on the eyes than black on white

3. how do you decide which items to post/feature?

4. you should have an "About" link/page

5. you should have a "Contact" link

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Gud 105 days ago
1. Thanks for the kind words!

2. The original version had a toggle for this, I dropped it to simplify development. Will return the feature for sure

3. I just trying to keep a record of sorts what the fuck is going on in the world. Originally it was more of a long form blog with original content. My plan is to have a mix with short news updates and long form opinion pieces.

4. good suggestion

5. good suggestion

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bookofjoe 106 days ago
The recurring fact of major companies' websites being down for prolonged periods indicates coding errors are not the result of underfunding.
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