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What we learnt from our mistakes in 2016
- auggierose 10y agoThe worst thing which is STILL wrong is the freaking comments system. When a comment has too many sub comments, they cut off these sub comments at some point and show a "click here for the rest of the comments" button. If you click on it, you are shown the rest of the sub comments, but from then on you live in some ground hog day scenario, where if you continue to read other comments of the same article, you will encounter the same comments again and again. Beats me why such a huge bug remains unfixed for years.
- dzink 10y agoI worked remotely (by 1000 miles) on the Times Square billboards for a major news network and learned the hard way that when you work for the news and make a mistake, you become the news. Nobody from the company saw the error, until it was reported on a Media blog. In media, especially event-based programming by the time you figure out all the test scenarios and potential issues, the code is often already obsolete. Decisions are driven by the teams that make money.