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Citibank was acting as an agent for Revlon, which owed hundreds of millions of dollars to various creditors. On August 11, Citibank was supposed to send out interest payments totaling $7.8 million to these creditors.
However, Revlon was in the process of refinancing its debt—paying off a few creditors while rolling the rest of its debt into a new loan. And this, combined with the confusing interface of financial software called Flexcube, led the bank to accidentally pay back the principal on the entire loan—most of which wasn't due until 2023.
File this one away for the next time one of your coworkers tries to insist a confusing gotcha filled cluster-![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) of a UI is ok because it doesn't really matter as long as everyone follows the happy path like they were trained to do.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"I see you're trying to launder some money, would you like me to help?" -- Clippy
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By "launder" are you referring to the incident with a toddler, the toilet, and Daddy's wallet?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Where was the "are you really sure you want to send out $500M to {them}?" dialog?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Probably only kicks in above a billion....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It looks like Flexcube is Oracle Software.
While Microsoft are not brilliant in some of their UI design, my experience with pretty much anything Oracle UI is that it's as if they want to make things difficult for the user.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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If the UI is difficult, the user is going to require more training, more handholding. -- er, consulting -- that translates to more revenues for the company.
Never give a sucker -- sorry, customer -- an even break!
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Ha! happened to someone else I see. I wrote code, shoot 20 years ago that misbilled customers (the tech lead was supposed to check this). Accounting found a mismatch in what the system was doing and what it was billing. Turns out I had an error in a transaction pre-amable. Since the machine didn't know what to do with the transaction, it parked it and emailed the trouble account.
The only problem was no one was checking the email.... had something like 45k emails asking for help.
The ugliest part was trying to explain to the customer why we needed to collect another $200K. Awkward...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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On Feb. 18, Perseverance is set to land on Mars. Here's everything you need to know about the NASA live stream and where to watch landing operations. No one would have grokked in the first years of the twenty-first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than barsoomians' and yet as mortal as their own
I just need to work some Bradbury and Robinson in that blurb and I'll have a full house.
edit: How could I have forgotten Heinlein? 
modified 17-Feb-21 20:31pm.
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Scientists used laser light and an electron to exert better control over fragile particles carrying quantum information. Where do you put the sharks?
I mean, "yay?", but also, "huh?"
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The use of "invisible" tracking tech in emails is now "endemic", according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request. I spy with my little eye, something starting with 'e'
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So turn of displaying graphics? Or switch to ProtonMail?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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[quote]Its makers said that many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the "big tech" firms.[/quote]
So I assume Big Tech has merged the unique user tracking feature into functional images that can't be blocked without breaking the html message instead?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've never display emails as html.
Problem solved.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Today, we are happy to deliver the first preview of .NET 6 and share what you can expect from the new release. "So it begins" (again)
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Dapr is an open source, portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice, stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge. Buzzwords! Fresh, hot buzzwords here!
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Buzzwords seriously let down by the fact that it's a "v1" release, and not some sort of pre-release-alpha-don't-use-this-yet-please-never-to-be-completed version. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Great docs. Absolutely no clue what it is or how to use it or what problem it solves but it sounds awesome. 
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Microsoft is taking a new tack in the Edge browser for displaying notification requests from websites. There are ones I want to see?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There are ones I want to see?
No.
Quote: Microsoft is calling on site developers to provide permission requests after users have engaged with the site, which should improve the acceptance rate and allow the site to show the full prompt.
And that, there, is the joke of the day. (Being advertisers submitting to such a thing.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There are ones I want to see?
In rare circumstances maybe. >99.9% of the time no.
My employer used to use Gmail (for business) as our mail provider, and I was only using the web version; desktop alerts for that were useful. Slack alerts were useful until a few of my coworkers got too chatty and I had to turn them off as overly disruptive. Notifications from RandomCrappySite.com OTOH can right off.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You’ll need the right attitude and the right hard and soft skills to feel like a winner in your software development career. "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?"
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Kent - please do us a favor and stop citing articles from InfoWorld. I had to close popups/overs half a dozen times trying to read the article, after which I finally gave up.
The only way to stop people from using such abhorrent tactics is to deny them traffic.
Software Zen: delete this;
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He might be unaware of them. I didn't have any popups on that page. Maybe it is due to using a hosts file. Or Vivaldi is really good at clobbering popups. I don't know.
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