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Re:What do the best interviewers have in common? by notyouravgdoge on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:35AM (#15822712)
> correctness is easy to check

This binary search bug took two decades to be discovered: https://research.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all...

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Re:What do the best interviewers have in common? by hackinthebochs on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:15AM (#15823911)
Seems like a good a place as any to note that I actually discovered this bug in high school programming class circa 1999. If only blogging was popular back then I could have been internet famous! (Surely this bug has been rediscovered many times, just predates the self-aggrandizing blog-post-for-everything era)
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