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Ugh, "glitch." This trend of publicly addressing every tech mishap as a "glitch" needs to end. It's like reporting every death as "because of boo boo." Edit:

Ugh, "glitch." This trend of publicly addressing every tech mishap as a "glitch" needs to end. It's like reporting every death as "because of boo boo." Edit: the linked press release does not say glitch, and the word "glitch" has been removed from the title of this story. But, it's still a problem in general.

dguaraglia 11y ago
People dumb. People don't understand technical terms. People fear boo boo.
fluidcruft 11y ago
The link doesn't include the word "glitch" anywhere. It was added by the HN submitter. Edit: looks like the HN title was updated to remove the term as I wrote this.
- sslayer 11y ago
  It was probably a glitch in the website that you didn't see it.
daveloyall 11y ago
Would you support redefining glitch to be specifically only the class of errors that "cosmic ray event" falls under?
- stcredzero 11y ago
  Has someone calculated the rate of data decay due to cosmic ray events?
  - astazangasta 11y ago
    Some facts here: http://ccm.net/faq/1678-myth-cosmic-rays-cause-errors http://ccm.net/faq/1678-myth-cosmic-rays-cause-errors
  - gghh 11y ago
    sure thing: http://lwn.net/Articles/219983/ http://lwn.net/Articles/219983/
- brandonmenc 11y ago
  Yes, exactly this. Everything else should get a better explanation. Misconfigurations and faulty programming aren't "glitches."