The Old New Thing

Buggy milk cartons, beeping computers, and other silliness

April 1, 2014 Apr 1, 2014 04/1/14

Raymond Chen

Some time ago, there was a performance-related bug that went something like this: mm/dd/yy Created by bob The attached file contains a dataset that takes a very long time to process. The engineer who fixed the problem decided to take the cryptic approach: mm/dd/yy Resolved as fixed by alice It got better. It was a common practice ...