True but on election night you’re just changing things from null to one of two strings.
replyI’ve spent 17 years in news and it’s not uncommon to operate short term journalistic stuff off a Google sheet or xml file. It’s basically fine.
If you know, you know. Lots of bystander comments in this discussion, finding fault or claiming they’d do it better. Maybe NBC News should be recruiting from here.
replyAnd all that is missing the real story, which is how one guy made tech magic happen, and how it feels to be praised for a technical accomplishment when those praising have very little idea what it really took.
That part stood out to me too. However this article was from 2018, not last week it seems to me.
replyWe did live debugging like this at the time, wouldn’t today.
It sure seemed like there were a bunch of moments of life updating? Discussion with Chris (producer), saying, ok, it's updated now, try this. Yes a lot was data updates but there were a bunch of other times it seemed more systems code etc.
replyMaybe they have the CI even if not the CD…?
replyYeah I hope that’s a simplification. At the very least I hope some automated testing is scanning that code change in a PR before it gets pulled down to the server.
reply> worse an error screen they'll screencap and meme.
Or even worse, you misattribute a result to the wrong candidate, it gets screencapped and used as evidence in another “election fraud” conspiracy theory.
I actually think the safety guards they’d add for software like this would be the more interesting part of the story!