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Chris Maunder wrote: Please never do this in your apps. Please.
Most of our customers scream bloody murder when a new feature or a bug fix isn't available immediately. When it's ready, we schedule a field service visit to install the update.
The field service guy shows up at the appointed time, and the customer informs him that they'll be running production for the next three weeks, 24 hours/day, and can't possibly stop. This is after scheduling the visit with their management, operations staff, etc.
Of course, if the machine exhibits the bug or doesn't have the feature, we get bitched at for not installing it, even though they refused to let us do so.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: The field service guy shows up at the appointed time, and the customer informs him that they'll be running production for the next three weeks, 24 hours/day, and can't possibly stop.
That is where it helps to have a good contract in place...
'Ok but just noting that this is third time so the next service call will cost you $15,000 or you can wait til next year'
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Lack of backward compatibility.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Paint.net at least allows you to update after closing your current session.
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Paint.net is #1 on my list of favorite non-commercial applications, followed very closely by Inno Setup.
It's extremely competent and full of small touches like the one you cite that make it pleasant to use.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: massive update that will take 2 minutes that will result in absolutely no change to your user experience
...then what's the point, is my question to them...
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Wordle 511 4/6
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After I'd typed it, I realised I should have noticed my 3rd line would be wrong. It had the same letter in position 2 as line 1!
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Wordle 511 4/6
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I seem to be stuck on fours ATM.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 511 4/6
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Wordle 511 4/6
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StarNamer wrote: After I'd typed it, I realised I should have noticed my 3rd line would be wrong. It had the same letter in position 2 as line 1!
I hate when I do that. Mostly because there's no one else to blame. 
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Wordle 511 5/6
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 511 2/6
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First guess made it easy to get the answer on second try
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 511 3/6*
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The insensitivity is appalling, but what is worse is that it means the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany are fading from collective memory.
Once forgotten, it could easily happen again.
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It looked to me like it was a result of someone trying to be efficient and really stepping in it.
The Kristallnacht memorial day is observed in Germany as an official holiday I think.
Ergo, if someone simply imported all the holidays into their app without really going through every single one to make sure it was appropriate this would happen.
It looks like an innocent, if very unfortunate error, not an attempt to terrorize people with it via a fast food company.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm just saying from what I read about it, it appeared to be a ridiculously stupid mistake, rather than a malicious actor.
That doesn't make it okay, please don't misunderstand me.
Hopefully, automating these holiday send outs will no longer be a thing that people do.
Hopefully, lessons were learned.
And yeah, I do think the onus is on KFC to apologize for it and make good on it, whatever that means. I'm not German, and I'm not Jewish, so that's as far as I'll weigh in.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I didn't impute any nefarious motives to you. I suspect that your theory is correct, and that this is a result of abysmal stupidity, rather than malice. I doubt that anyone in Global KFC even knew about this promotion, let alone approved it.
OTOH, we Jews are especially sensitive to such things because bitter experience has shown us that persecution does not start with revocation of legal rights; it starts with small incidents like these, and grows from there.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I completely agree with you. This kind of thing can't be left to happen.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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As if we could do so much to avoid it...
The most stupid animal in the world is the human mass
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Perhaps my research isn't that great but far as I can tell Kristallnacht is not a national holiday in Germany.
So as far as the excuse for entering it accidently one might wonder exactly what source they were using to decide the promotion days.
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LingoJam | Make a Translator Online![^]
Code Beautify[^]
Both of these have all sorts of crazy tools for manipulating text.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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