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Technically, the term "billion dollar mistake", coined in 1965, would now be a "10 billion dollar mistake" in 2025. Or, if the cost is measured in terms of hous
by fschuett 1y ago
Technically, the term "billion dollar mistake", coined in 1965, would now be a "10 billion dollar mistake" in 2025. Or, if the cost is measured in terms of housing, it would be a "21 billion dollar mistake".
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- masklinn 1y agoThe billion dollar mistake was made in 1965 but the term was coined in 2009, defined as the following: > I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.