Programming’s Greatest Mistakes • Mark Rendle • GOTO 2023
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams
Mark Rendle - Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP Awards & 30 Years of Experience Building Software @MarkRendle
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ABSTRACT
Most of the time when we make mistakes in our code, a message gets displayed wrong or an invoice doesn’t get sent. But sometimes when people make mistakes in code, things literally explode, or bankrupt companies, or make web development a living hell for millions of programmers for years to come.
Join Mark on a tour through some of the worst mistakes in the history of programming. Learn what went wrong, why it went wrong, how much it cost, and how things are really funny when they’re not happening to you. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:35 The med file unf*cker
05:51 Y2K
14:39 The Kennel club “Dog 38“ bug
17:00 EnTErpRIsE
20:43 The Pentium FPU
23:45 NULL
26:43 Hartford Center
29:20 Knight Capital
35:32 Mariner 1
38:11 Mars Climate Orbiter
40:25 Ariane 5
42:01 The big rewrite
43:57 JavaScript
49:39 The Soviet early warning system
51:07 Outro
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Tomasz Lelek & Jon Skeet • Software Mistakes & Tradeoffs •
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know •
Merih Taze • Engineers Survival Guide •
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