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.