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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by lisper on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:33PM (#23263816)
> If they had enough time to warn people ahead of time, they had plenty of time to push a fix to their system for this

At the very least, a message that appeared at the time that one attempted to upload the image with instructions on how to fix the problem on the spot. How hard could that have possibly been?

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by munk-a on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:47PM (#23264021)
Quite hard? I mean shame on them for letting this bug through in the first place but I'd be pretty horrified if someone at CB tried to hot-fix this problem out.

This isn't a small agile organization, it's enormous and may not have any route to get a patch out in less than a week due to QA requirements. (That isn't to say such slow deployment processes are good, but they do exist and may be contractually required)

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by lisper on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:52PM (#23264124)
Who said anything about a hot fix? They knew about the problem well ahead of time.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by PascLeRasc on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:07PM (#23264336)
Anything less than 2 fiscal quarters is a hot fix for these people.
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