[HN Gopher] How I fixed Mopac and why it had it coming - The imp...
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       How I fixed Mopac and why it had it coming - The importance of bug
       reports
        
       Author : omajoshi
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-11-20 20:41 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | bradknowles wrote:
       | It helps if you know the right people. I used to run TED, what
       | was then the worlds largest known OpenLDAP system, with an
       | average of over 88 pieces of information about every single
       | student, faculty, staff, or temporary vendor who had come through
       | the University since the 1960s. Millions upon millions of
       | records. I also used to run TIM and TAM as well.
       | 
       | Until the Great Layoff by the bean counters, which was
       | suspiciously close to the timing where the School of
       | Communications took all their business away from the Central ITS
       | department, it was easy enough to file a complaint with the help
       | desk, the help desk knew who all in Central ITS was working on
       | what, so they could quickly turn around the bug to us.
        
       | toddm wrote:
       | But you didn't fix anything, least of all Mopac: you reported an
       | "oversight" - one of probably 100,000 here in Austin - that was
       | corrected. And it's on Braker, not Mopac.
       | 
       | To truly "fix" any of the transportation infrastructure here, one
       | needs a time machine and a fondness for urban development in the
       | 1960s in Texas.
        
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