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Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

"Because people will make mistakes when under pressure.

But beancounters don't like this as it'll make projects run over budget."

If you're under pressure to meet a deadline, it's usually because the deadline wasn't properly specified in the first place, or was "adjusted" by the bean counters to fit a smaller budget than was originally planned for.

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