jelyfrideI was there, and the threat absolutely was blown out of proportion.
Are you saying that there was no risk, especially in finance, and that people didn’t work for years fixing the bug?
Are you saying that there was no risk, especially in finance, and that people didn’t work for years fixing the bug?
Seriously where are you getting any of that?
I said, very concisely and more than once, the threat was blown out of proportion. Did you read or watch any local news in the late 90’s?
Did you actually do any of the work mitigating the issue? Did you see the starting point and what was put in to turn a problem into a non-issue or are you just getting all your viewpoints from local news?
The threat was not blown out of proportion.
Yes actually. As I recall I added two digits to the date fields in a FoxPro script so a bunch of casino coupons went out correctly. It saved a lot of lives ;)
I’m getting that you don’t get how ‘blown out of proportion’ means a disconnect between the reality and the perception of an event. Not sure how to walk you through that.
You fail to understand that the reality was a massive industry-side problem that got taken care of before it could blow up. That the issue got miscommunicated to the consumers as somehow being an issue for them too doe not make it “blown out of proportion”, it makes it a miscommunication.
That the issue got miscommunicated to the consumers as somehow being an issue for them
That’s literally what ‘blown out of proportion’ means. If I miscommunicated to non IT staff that left-pad ‘broke the internet’, that would have been ‘blown out of proportion’. That’s what that phrase means.
No, it is not. Left-pad DID break the internet. That the break was contained before it could propagate and affect consumers does not negate the fact that it was still a serious break.
You know it didn’t. It broke a bunch of dependencies and ruined a lot of dev’s day. The ‘internet’ continued to work everywhere left-pad wasn’t used. So now you’ve ‘blown it out of proportion’ too, but yeah- already established you’re just missing the whole concept, but interesting to watch.
Just because your industry wouldn’t have caused much trouble if it failed didn’t mean there weren’t other industries with bigger consequences if they didn’t mitigate it
So in your opinion the media and public response to Y2K was entirely proportionate… I guess that’s an opinion.
There may have been some over-panicing, but without the media coverage, many more companies and governments would have avoided doing any mitigation, and woken up on Jan 1 to broken systems.
So over-panicking, but not ‘blown out of proportion’…
Kind of bizarre you’ll blather about all that but just can’t just accept that the phrase ‘blown out of proportion’ is perfectly applicable to Y2K. But you’re committed that it wasn’t ‘blown out of proportion’ now- no way out but more blathering ;)
If it wasn’t “blown out of proportion” then many things would not have been fixed, and many of them would have broken, causing some of the very things that seemed blown out in the media.
But by perhaps November 1999, there was media coverage which was both panicked and unhelpful. Most code had been fixed by that point, and what wasn’t fixed wasn’t going to be.
If it wasn’t “blown out of proportion” then many things would not have been fixed, and many of them would have broken, causing some of the very things that seemed blown out in the media.
I wish you could appreciate how hilarious that sentence is. But okay- thanks for clarifying that it had to be blown out of proportion to prevent the things that would have happened if it weren’t blown out of proportion ;)