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[fabrisse]

I don't think of Foxtrot as a particularly political cartoon, but I like this one.

By the way, why is it that the geeks I know all understand why there must be a papertrail, but many of the non-computer people don't? Is it a variation on computers are magic/perfect?

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[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I think it must be.

This may be a unique example of a situation where a new technology is introduced and the people in that industry are the ones most opposed to its use. You'd think that would raise a huge warning flag right there, but apparently nooooo.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Well, back when I was a spanking new database programmer, I wrote a program that crashed the entire company system. It took six hours to repair it, and then someone got the bright idea of testing the individual components without reading the code and crashed the entire system again. This time it only took two hours to repair.

The error was mine. It came from one line of code out in a three hundred line program, and one of the senior programmers had suggested that line of code as a solution to another problem I was having. As long as it worked alone -- the only testing that I did -- it was fine. It was using it in conjunction with something else that was running as part of the wider program that caused the problem.

Essentially, that company lost 2/3 of a day's profits because I made a mistake.

Heaven help us with undocumented electronic voting.

Good to see you in my LJ. *g*