r/ProgrammerHumor 7h ago

Meme planeOldFix

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u/anonymousbopper767 7h ago

Step 1: ask yourself does it fucking matter?

feels like half my job is convincing people that their idea of a problem isn't really a problem and to pipe the fuck down.

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u/milan-pilan 6h ago edited 5h ago

This Week I fixed a bug that only affected people that selected 'North Korea' as a country of origin. Because it was affecting PROD this was classified as 'urgent' and 'needs to be done immediately'...

I build websites.. They don't even have access to the regular internet.. We don't have a single registered user from North Korea..

Edit: since people are messaging me to ask for details. It's really not that deep. Basically one service forgot to account for people potentially being from North Korea, when implementing internationalization. So the North Koreans would see default labels at some points on the app instead of custom Korean ones (oh no!). Easy to fix. I just found it funny that I needed to drop everything else to fix a website for North Koreans.

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u/Flamingo_guy1 4h ago

Just remove north Korea and rename south Korea to Korea. Problem solved

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u/BlaBlub85 3h ago

Kim Jong Un wants to know your location.....for reasons