20 points | by gregsadetsky 5 days ago
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- I signed my offer letter to work at Knight Capital on July 27th, 2012
- I resigned July 30th
- Knight Capital had their $400 million outage August 1st
- I went to work there anyway
- Pager Duty app was not really a thing back then so Knight instituted a SMS based notifier
- iOS rolled out the weather and amber alert notifications around this time
- one of the above goes off while everyone is at work
- someone yells: "OH GOD, NOT AGAIN!!!"
when DO I = 1.100 was used instead of DO I = 1,100
Mariner I, a spacecraft bound for Venus, was lost July 22, 1962 due to a combination of hardware failure and software error, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1#Cause_of_the_malfunc... . (I misremembered this as a similar Fortran error.)
- I signed my offer letter to work at Knight Capital on July 27th, 2012
- I resigned July 30th
- Knight Capital had their $400 million outage August 1st
- I went to work there anyway
- Pager Duty app was not really a thing back then so Knight instituted a SMS based notifier
- iOS rolled out the weather and amber alert notifications around this time
- one of the above goes off while everyone is at work
- someone yells: "OH GOD, NOT AGAIN!!!"
when DO I = 1.100 was used instead of DO I = 1,100
Mariner I, a spacecraft bound for Venus, was lost July 22, 1962 due to a combination of hardware failure and software error, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1#Cause_of_the_malfunc... . (I misremembered this as a similar Fortran error.)