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The only way out of it I can think of would be: if the site could prove that some number of people, greater than 45, were hitting that specific query on that sp
by lainga 7y ago
The only way out of it I can think of would be: if the site could prove that some number of people, greater than 45, were hitting that specific query on that specific page, then vacuously, they could say that any number of people between 1 and 45 were also looking at the offer.
But then, why wouldn't they just display "at least 45 people" or the exact number? I'm struggling to find some way of doing this which could be any stupider (`view_notification_random` ??) than what we see.
- gherkinnn 7y ago“But..” stammers the dev “I have no real way of knowing just how many people are looking at this offer.” “But in Sprint Planning round 4 you told me the API is ready” responds the PO sternly. “Sprint ends tomorrow. I gave you the story. You committed to the goal. Them’s the rules.” “Ok, Ok. Tell you what, I’ll make something work and we’ll write a follow up story to make this right. Does that please you, mighty Owner of Product?”
- nothrabannosir 7y agoThe source code literally calls Math.random. I hope that defence wouldn’t fly in court, even if accidentally true.
- rolltiide 7y agoAlways get in the seat of the defense. I would absolutely have made a few headless browsing bots masquarading as users just incase this scenario occurred Look your honor the logs say other users, “people”, were looking regardless of our random function
- nothrabannosir 7y agoWould admitting to gaming those numbers make your defence somehow stronger? Or would you withhold that information, and perjure yourself?
- rolltiide 7y agoDepends on the charge and the consequences of those charges
- tantalor 7y agoAh yes the classic legal principle of "two wrongs makes a right".
- rolltiide 7y agoThe legal principle of custom tailoring your defense based on what the charge and consequence is, after covering your ass based on what the potential charges and consequences are Thats the literal theme of this website’s headlines where you been
- prawn 7y agoMy thought (giving them benefit of the doubt) was that perhaps they knew that somewhere in the vicinity of 28-45 had been looking recently, but not with per-minute confidence. So they fix that range and then randomly pick something from that range to display on each page load. But that is giving them a lot of benefit!
- zzo38computer 7y agoMaybe, then to be truthful you can display "Approx. 28-45 people are viewing this"