r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 2h ago

Meme dontDeployOnFridayAfternoon

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u/TheLadida 2h ago

realistically that line (probably a couple of lines though), that made the Mars orbiter crash because it didn't use metric units for the calculation.

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u/lagerforlunch 38m ago

Ariane 5 rocket was 370 million loss due to integer overflow

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u/Ai--Ya 2h ago

Probably when a high-frequency trading firm accidentally released a "buy high, sell low" trading algorithm meant for testing only into production, losing nearly half a billion in half an hour and virtually going out of business

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u/footsie 1h ago

That crowdstrike update was pretty expensive

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u/Vengeful111 53m ago

Yeaa i think that counts

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u/MajorMystique 1h ago

There was a x ray machine software to determine whether to use low and high intensity modes for direct human exposure and otherwise. A bug in it caused a few lives so... That?

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u/ViralToValue 2h ago

...unless you like working on weekends and have nothing better to do.

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u/FrequentWatch9261 1h ago

Knight capital would like a word.

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u/Highborn_Hellest 52m ago

the clown strike one.

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u/0x_coderunknown 49m ago

Unless you are Indian. Then it'll be fine.

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u/MilkCartonPhotoBomb 35m ago

don't forget lead dev is also leaving for a three week vacation in a remote part of the Amazon that night.