Removed a bug 2 weeks ago.
Customer calls today and wants to have it back.
The error miscalculated a sum.
🤷
When you thought you saw everything...

Client: lets walk backwards into the future 👍

I read somewhere that Microsoft has a list of bugs for Excel that if they were ever fixed could cause global economic meltdown.

@bkwilliams Link? Sounds interesting 😁

@bkwilliams I too am interested in bugs that cause catastrophic sudden unexpected global economic disassembles.

@elzdev @vomitmachine from the great patio11

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/...

@bkwilliams Finance teams always have weird sheets and processes that break if you breath wrong in their direction. It doesn't surprise me that leading 0s in zip codes would merit sticking around for 20 years to be honest.

@bkwilliams hahahaha

Elzdev: Its a bug
Client: Well yes but actually no

@v3ctor 😂😂😂

I work in finance and this is kinda true. Some group gets told something like “this software has an off by one error on all shorts” and they will develop their whole pipeline based on that. So one day you fix it and then it wrecks havoc because said team built their stuff on the basis of an error