To err is human
January 17th, 2010 | by emontero |We’re usually aghast when software from well-established, successful companies fail. We hold this idyllic vision in our heads in which software from IBM, Apple, Microsoft, or Google is simply perfect and error free. After all, Google employees are not mere programmers like most of us. They’re wicked smart, 4.0-GPA-at-MIT-while-also-enjoying-a-vibrant-social-life programmers! Picture my face when I stumbled upon this gem today:
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Does YouTube experience internal errors? Wait. Does this mean other Google online apps could also crash in spectacular fashion unexpectedly? To err is indeed human.
One Response to “To err is human”
By Jorge Vargas on Jan 21, 2010 | Reply
hey at least they made fun of it.
How about undoing that md5 to see what the real error was?