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We've seen something similar at work where 2 or 3 people will come across an obscure bug in our code all in the same week. When looking into the root cause it t
by mattm 6y ago
We've seen something similar at work where 2 or 3 people will come across an obscure bug in our code all in the same week. When looking into the root cause it turned out that the bug was created 18 months ago. So for 18 months it went unnoticed and then multiple people come across it pretty much at the same time. This has happened a few times and the people who found the bug were working on different things so it's not like they find it because they're working in the same area.
- epilys 6y agoThere's so many things going on all the time, that there not being any coincidence of any kind is less probable than these kinds of coincidences examined individually. The world's a great and bizarre place.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoI recently corrected a misspelling of Nicolas Cages' birth name in the German wikipedia that had been there for 15 years. I could not find a single German-language source for correct spelling, because they all copied the error from either Wikipedia or each other. Then, I discovered the issue being mentioned on the discussion page two weeks earlier and never before.
- ineedasername 6y agoThat's an excellent example of XKCD's citogenesis: https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/