Reply to post: Re: Uh ho ...

Britain has no idea how close it came to ATMs flooding the streets with free money thanks to some crap code, 1970s style

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Re: Uh ho ...

My wife was writing docs for a product, and filed a bug that it didn't work on Wednesdays. A somewhat sceptical development team agreed to humour her by looking at the problem, and found a day-of-week variable that was only 8 characters in size ...

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