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This is maybe not extremely on-topic, but when creating an account on their platform, their "Time zone" field is sorted in alphabetical order of CITY NAMES whic

This is maybe not extremely on-topic, but when creating an account on their platform, their "Time zone" field is sorted in alphabetical order of CITY NAMES which are listed AFTER the timezone name and are not capitals, which is absolutely wild to me. If the same engineers worked on this that also worked on the ad deliveries, we're about to get either the best deal per click of the century, or the worst! Atlantic Standard Time - St Vincent Central Standard Time - Swift Current Central Standard Time - Tegucigalpa Atlantic Time - Thule Pacific Time - Tijuana Eastern Time - Toronto Atlantic Standard Time - Tortola Pacific Time - Vancouver Whitehorse Time - Whitehorse Central Time - Winnipeg Alaska Time - Yakutat

sebastiennight 3mo ago
Ah, despite the admirable variety in timezones for advertisers, it turns out that this is only rolling out in a limited set of countries: Australia Available Canada Available Japan Available Korea Available New Zealand Available United Kingdom Available United States Available
- notTooFarGone 3mo ago
  Weirdly no EU countries...
  - sebastiennight 3mo ago
    Cue the usual "EU is killing innovation because of all of those pesky tech and privacy regulations" thread where non-EU citizens and bots try to convince you that all EU consumers are clamoring to get access to this treasure trove of new features they're being "denied" access to.
georgemcbay 3mo ago
> If the same engineers worked on this that also worked on the ad deliveries, we're about to get either the best deal per click of the century, or the worst! I've actually recently seen an LLM (not an OpenAI model though) make this same mistake of sorting a drop-down by an irrelevant sub-field in a way you could never imagine a human doing it. Still says something about their development culture that they either never noticed, or didn't care enough to fix it.
gspr 3mo ago
I thought these "engineers" were bragging that they aren't writing code anymore.
inigyou 3mo ago
Whole platform is probably vibrator-coded, just like Claude Code is.

sebastiennight 3mo ago

Ah, despite the admirable variety in timezones for advertisers, it turns out that this is only rolling out in a limited set of countries: Australia Available Canada Available Japan Available Korea Available New Zealand Available United Kingdom Available United States Available

notTooFarGone 3mo ago
Weirdly no EU countries...
- sebastiennight 3mo ago
  Cue the usual "EU is killing innovation because of all of those pesky tech and privacy regulations" thread where non-EU citizens and bots try to convince you that all EU consumers are clamoring to get access to this treasure trove of new features they're being "denied" access to.

georgemcbay 3mo ago

> If the same engineers worked on this that also worked on the ad deliveries, we're about to get either the best deal per click of the century, or the worst! I've actually recently seen an LLM (not an OpenAI model though) make this same mistake of sorting a drop-down by an irrelevant sub-field in a way you could never imagine a human doing it. Still says something about their development culture that they either never noticed, or didn't care enough to fix it.

gspr 3mo ago

I thought these "engineers" were bragging that they aren't writing code anymore.

inigyou 3mo ago

Whole platform is probably vibrator-coded, just like Claude Code is.