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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by 1-6 on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:04PM (#22470851)
One code hangup probably costed this company everything. I'd hate to be the CTO right now.
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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by daenz on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:42PM (#22471076)
I'm surprised that nobody in the company said "Hey, this is a leap year, can our system handle Feb 29th?"
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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by Test_patronum on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:21AM (#22473031)
Literally no one has ever said this, ever
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Re:Did RobinHood crash because of a leap year bug? by zaphod12 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @09:20AM (#22474602)
That's untrue. I know a lot of people who have said that exact phrase....on February 28th.
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