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Spent an hour in line today, which would've been longer but the person in front of me gave up, and the person in front of her only rung up ~25% of her items. I

Spent an hour in line today, which would've been longer but the person in front of me gave up, and the person in front of her only rung up ~25% of her items. I had about 10 items and it took about 20 minutes to get everything scanned completely. I'm guessing a bad config pushed out that borked networking code so some poor router or server was doing all the work. Looking forward to the post mortem (yeah right).

chrisseaton 7y ago
> Spent an hour in line today Why on earth would you spend an hour in line at Target? Did you need to buy medication or something and it was the only option? I would have given up and gone elsewhere after three minutes.
- wodenokoto 7y ago
  Sunk cost
  - symplee 7y ago
    Furthermore: escalation of commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
    - bayareanative 7y ago
      That almost perfectly describes those of Gaelic lineage.
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago
  Depending on what you're buying (groceries for a family, say), driving to another store and picking everything out again could easily take well over an hour.
Overtonwindow 7y ago
Which begs the question, why did they push out an update or a configuration change in the middle of the day?
- chrisseaton 7y ago
  When should you push out an update? At the start of the day? At the end of the day? Either of those would mean the whole day was broken. In the middle of the day means one day of trading, one day broken in the worst case and then fixing overnight.
  - zarriak 7y ago
    At least I would assume they would try to create a set of test locations that they would first update instead of everything. I understand that there may be differences in hardware but I still find it odd they wouldn't have a more limited deployment. Even with all the testing you could ever do pushing an update to everything at once without any real world testing seems absurd. Also I think it is hard to ask when you should push the update but based on their hours it seems like you should not push an update on Saturday of all things. If you are not going to do limited testing first then I think you should deploy 8-9 on a weekday, I would guess Tuesday would be the day with least traffic so do that. Under no circumstances should you push regular updates on a Saturday, especially since that requires work Sunday if anything goes wrong and impacts what are probably 2 of the top 3 days of the week for this kind of shopping.

chrisseaton 7y ago

> Spent an hour in line today Why on earth would you spend an hour in line at Target? Did you need to buy medication or something and it was the only option? I would have given up and gone elsewhere after three minutes.

wodenokoto 7y ago
Sunk cost
- symplee 7y ago
  Furthermore: escalation of commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
  - bayareanative 7y ago
    That almost perfectly describes those of Gaelic lineage.
PhasmaFelis 7y ago
Depending on what you're buying (groceries for a family, say), driving to another store and picking everything out again could easily take well over an hour.

Overtonwindow 7y ago

Which begs the question, why did they push out an update or a configuration change in the middle of the day?

chrisseaton 7y ago
When should you push out an update? At the start of the day? At the end of the day? Either of those would mean the whole day was broken. In the middle of the day means one day of trading, one day broken in the worst case and then fixing overnight.
- zarriak 7y ago
  At least I would assume they would try to create a set of test locations that they would first update instead of everything. I understand that there may be differences in hardware but I still find it odd they wouldn't have a more limited deployment. Even with all the testing you could ever do pushing an update to everything at once without any real world testing seems absurd. Also I think it is hard to ask when you should push the update but based on their hours it seems like you should not push an update on Saturday of all things. If you are not going to do limited testing first then I think you should deploy 8-9 on a weekday, I would guess Tuesday would be the day with least traffic so do that. Under no circumstances should you push regular updates on a Saturday, especially since that requires work Sunday if anything goes wrong and impacts what are probably 2 of the top 3 days of the week for this kind of shopping.