I’ve done worse. At my very first job I wrote some slow login rewards calculation code for a mobile game that caused a black screen on startup for long enough t

I’ve done worse. At my very first job I wrote some slow login rewards calculation code for a mobile game that caused a black screen on startup for long enough that users thought the app was broken and closed it out. (I was simulating passing time one minute at a time in lua or some BS. Oops!) It cost the company some large fraction of my salary at the time. My boss very kindly said that it was okay, everyone ends up mucking up like that at some point in the career, and no I wasn’t fired because the company just spend a large sum teaching me a lesson. We sat down at a whiteboard and I quickly came up with a solution that could just calculate the rewards one should get between two dates - there was some complexity that made this harder than it sounds on paper, but simulating time manually was not the answer.