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My Most Embarrassing Mistakes as a Programmer (So Far)
- reallydontask 7y agoI once made a bad design decision that led through a chain of errors to ~ £120K in contract penalties (That was the profit on that contract for the first quarter wiped out, allegedly) From them on I always asked at interviews how would such a issue be dealt with. Most interviewers would go on about how it's never only the fault of the developer, etc .. but one basically said: Well, we might need to reevaluate your position at the company. Turns out that the guy was a totally incompetent manager who was sacked so I dodged a bullet there (Evaluation of his skills by three different people, not me obviously)
- rbanffy 7y agoWe were once testing a new concurrent SMS sending service that we ran performance tests against our mock infrastructure and we accidentally deployed it to production without the throttling enabled. A large telco had an SMS blackout for about an hour.
- db48x 7y agoBest quote ever: "I heard years later that the person who inherited my code hated me."
- BerislavLopac 7y agoThere is a reason for the old Kathy Sierra's quote: "Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live."