Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right? [Tue Mar 2 2021]

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Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

We'll never know but he was spared the whiteboard of shame

 
 

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Japanese bank botched data migration, which somehow turned its ATMs into card-eating monsters

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'Incorrect software parameter' sends Formula E's Edoardo Mortara to hospital: Brakes' fail-safe system failed

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Would you Looker that: Google bakes in BigQuery caching layer to boost BI interactivity

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Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

We'll never know but he was spared the whiteboard of shame

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Singapore reveals open-source blockchain COVID-test result tracker, eyes uses as vaccine passport app

Tech already used to verify university degrees, will soon be compulsory at the border

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Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs

Biased terms can't be ‘grandfathered’ in either – that’s also on vendor's list of language best avoided

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