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Mala Gupta wrote:A lot of folks ask me - how is it that simple errors like these aren't noticed during the content review cycles.
My response - You can compare books with software. Perhaps an open bug on the system is due to changes in the code that fixed a bug in its last cycle. :-)


I liked this quote so I posted it on Twitter and credited Mala. It got Hanlon's razor as a response ("never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by optimization for a different function")

I have my twitter set to auto post to Facebook where it got the poem:
99 little bugs in the code
99 bugs in the code
1 bug fixed .... compile again
100 little buts in the code
 
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There are butts in the code?
 
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Presumably RT is a toxophilite too, in which case butts means targets.
 
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Jan de Boer wrote:There are butts in the code?


I was hoping someone would notice that I put a "bug" in the poem .
 
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Jan de Boer wrote:There are butts in the code?


With so many people butting in the code base, I would be surprised if there aren't any
 
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