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Programming's Greatest Mistakes • Mark Rendle • GOTO 2023

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Excellent. stand-up It's about software mistakes that I really laughed at. The bottom line is that the author is an experienced software developer who talks all the way about facaps, and starts with his own, and then spins the spiral further and mentions many famous stories. Let me briefly describe the facapas that are being discussed.

  • The med file Unf*cker - author's facade, where he made software to fix the bug in damage to saved files (namingly)
  • Y2K problem 2000 the year in which the year was to be placed in YY, but in 2000 I had to go to YYYY in a year. And then all the software had to be adjusted to these changes.
  • The Kennel club "Dog 38A fun example of storing numbers in Roman format Agile in enterprise as SAFe, AutoScrum 1.1 From Accenture and The Agile Landscape v3 from Deloitte, you can see from the pictures that Agile in corporations has gone somewhere wrong:)
  • The Pentium FPU The problem with the floating point in Intel processors, this situation is funny described by Andy Grove in the book "Only the Paranoid Survive", about which I already wrote Null is a story about the emergence of nullable values and how Tony Hoare participated.Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake"
  • Hartford Center A story about what’s designed in CAD doesn’t always feel real. (This is about the collapse of the building due to snow.)
  • Knight Capital The epic story of high frequency trading and how an emergency software update with a bug and disabled fool protection bankrupted a big hedge fund in a few hours
  • Mariner1 - about the bug in the formula, which was broadcast in Fortran, which led to the crash
  • Mars Climate Orbiter Imperial and Metric Systems (inches and feet) And how, instead of exploring Mars from orbit, the spacecraft decided to come to Mars:)
  • Ariane 5 How to migrate software from Ariane4 to Ariane5 16 Bit float field put down 64 bit value and what it led to The Big Rewrite - about the facade of the author
  • Javascript - the language gathered for 10 And then it became super popular and equally unconsistent:)
  • Lieutenant Stanislav Petrov How a Soviet officer prevented 26 September 1983 A potential nuclear war after the false operation of the missile warning system by the United States.

#Fackup #Humor #Reliability #SRE