Re:An Embarrassing Bug in Mac App Sandboxing
by retrogradeorbit on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:32AM
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To fanboys it's only 'embarrassing' when it's the other sides problem. WWGS? (What would Gruber say?)
Also when I used to be a Mac administrator, the Apple private databases/forums would drive me mad. God forbid if you could do a Google search for what you are experiencing and find some discussion! Bugs? What Bugs?
I do not agree with your assessment of what "embarrassing" means. This could as easily be an irate developer as a PR stunt. I believe the latter interpretation is more likely.
Here are some other examples of how "embarrassing bug" is used, in a style which is similar to what is used here:
Cloud computing: Amazon suffered a highly embarrassing bug last spring when part of its much vaunted cloud service went down. Client websites such as Quora and Reddit were temporarily forced offline because they relied on Amazon’s servers - The Independent.
Microsoft's command-line utility for copying files, 'copy', has an embarrassing bug. If you command it to copy a folder into a new location, it instead copies the contents of the folder, and ignores the folder itself. Therefore, it does what you didn't tell it to do, and doesn't do what you told it to do. Therefore, that is an egregious, unforgivable, and incredibly embarrassing bug for Microsoft. -- http://nicholas.rinard.us/2012/07/embarrassing-bug-for-micro...
Incrediblly embarrassing bug CS4 -- http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/945614 (with autosave on, it does not save modified work on exit or ask if the work should be saved)
MICROSOFT`s EMBARRASSING BUG -- http://www.cbronline.com/news/microsofts_embarrassing_bug (2.01 - 2.00 = 0.00 in pre-Win95 versions of the desktop calculator)
As you can see, these aren't all written as PR stunts.