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Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'

39 pointsby xufiover 8 years ago

8 comments

jrockwayover 8 years ago
The biggest thing I take away from this is that users have learned to tolerate minor problems in software. I always make it a personal goal to have 0 bugs, but never succeed. It is good that users cut us some slack, because it means we can spend some time pushing the featureset forward, rather than making everything 100% perfect 100% of the time. (Be more careful if you're working on life-critical software, though. Features are not necessarily the most important thing there ;)
tbveralrudover 8 years ago
"We hope people who love %s will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate %s life." is one of the most insincere code commits of that day. Let others write about a lost loved one, not robots.
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lsmodover 8 years ago
"An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people as dead."
yawaraminover 8 years ago
You know, I bet it was something to do with `memorializeUser` again (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.columbia.edu&#x2F;~ng2573&#x2F;zuggybuggy_is_2scale4ios.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.columbia.edu&#x2F;~ng2573&#x2F;zuggybuggy_is_2scale4ios.pd...</a> slide 46). In fact I would go so far as to say this is the kind of thing that should be encoded in the type system so it&#x27;s a compile error to try to do this.
lalaithionover 8 years ago
Thirty years from now: Same headline without quotes.
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rhizomeover 8 years ago
I have to wonder what the attempted feature was that resulted in this.
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iniminoover 8 years ago
Let&#x27;s wait for the post-mortem on this one.
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warsawover 8 years ago
Who uses Facebook?
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