The Daily WTF

Here in the US, “tax season” is extended into the summer. No one likes dealing with taxes, obviously, but we agree that the social benefits outweigh the costs.

I can’t speak to how folks feel in Italy. But Riccardo B was perusing the Italian Revenue Service’s (INPS) website, and was having a bad time of it. This website was recently “modernized”, which Riccardo tells us cost €300M (I wasn’t able to track down much on this, and since I don’t speak Italian, I’ll take Riccardo’s word on it), so “having a bad time” doesn’t seem like it should be part of the process.

Like most of us, when he started having problems, Riccardo pulled up the inspector and started debugging. Which is how he spotted this €300M treat:

function wait(ms) { var start = new Date().getTime(); var end = start; while (end < start + ms) { end =

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