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Re:Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down by EpicEng on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:59PM (#9058145)
Sure; I suppose it comes down to your definition of "broken". I would consider inconsistent results broken and, as you say, a thorough analysis should be performed to assess the impact.

I was thinking more along the lines of "I don't like this code, let's refactor". That can be dangerous.

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Re:Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down by stcredzero on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:40PM (#9059976)
I think management was traumatized by some of the hubristic "let's refactor" crowd, and overcompensated. My friend was a physics major, not CS, and his programming style was cautious, conservative, and workman-like. His physics and math was top notch, and that's where his objections to the NASA code came from.
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