The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen

"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin) 01/16/2018 at 14:33 • Filed to: None

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My jaw is on the floor. How can this possibly be real?

Aremmes > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:40

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How can it NOT be real? This is what most gov IT systems look like, after all.

HammerheadFistpunch > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:41

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This is the equivalent of touchscreen HVAC controls...a hateful exercise in unnecessarily reinventing the wheel to the detriment of function...however, you know, orders of magnitude more important.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:43

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Bad UI design? Some things should be separated or on a sub-menu but never are. Our stupid phones at work have the disconnect button right next to the hold button, two things that should be separated. And when using a soft phone, it doesn’t take much of a miss with the mouse to hit the wrong button.

user314 > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:46

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Being perfectly honest here: I don’t see the issue with the design. Yeah, it’s not pretty, but I don’t get how he got confused about which link/button does what (aside from 1. TEST Message, which I’d wager is leftover cruft from the programmer that no one can figure how remove).

PartyPooper2012 > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:49

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How I imagine development went.

12 year old kid learning HTML... adds few hyperlinks to a page. Mom says - you’re a genius, Billy. Can you change the links to Tsunami, Nuclear bomb and Test.... I want to take it to work with me. I know a perfect spot where I can use this

fintail > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:49

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Hey in 1993 this was really something.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:53

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1997 web design FTW.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 14:57

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You’d be surprised at how ridiculous a lot of custom stuff for the government is. The government has deep pockets, exceedingly few talented people capable of even defining requirements, and they will use stuff forever because budgets. I’ve seen terrifying things through the years I spent in government contracting. You would be shocked by the culture of incompetence in these groups.

Their network security is usually straight garbage, they have plenty of dirty one-offs they use daily (partially because they can’t produce specs and partially because there’s no value in developing something of high quality for a one-off), etc.

Telephony equipment and software is also generally garbage.

facw > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 15:05

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It’s terrible, not a hint of thinking about UX. And it doesn’t need to be super fancy, as you say, just a little bit of grouping could have avoided this (though a confirmation displaying the message to be sent would have been good as well).

I mean I’ve had bad code live much longer than I would have liked, because of a temporary project that was supposed to be in use three months ending up hanging around for over two years (and still going), but a page of links like this could be drastically improved in 20 minutes (though for a critical system like this, you’d want to do a bunch of testing beyond that). Still would have been well worth the effort, am I’m sure they’ll do it now.

Future next gen S2000 owner > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 15:17

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Low bid contractor.

McMike > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 15:31

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KINJA’D

Ash78, voting early and often > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 15:48

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Wait, he opted for the Collision Damage Waiver? Moron!

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 15:48

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Remember that countries, states and counties are run by amateurs and that the qualifications required for such jobs is often simplified in the extreme. Even good governments are not private industry...

That said though...this is pretty funny.

Ash78, voting early and often > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 15:49

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Still better than Kinja

user314 > mkbruin, Atlas VP 01/16/2018 at 17:27

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