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In Norway, we call this class of error "a Kenneth", after everyone who logged in to see their tax return in 2012 received the tax return of a guy named Kenneth. The culprit was allegedly a misconfigured load balancer.


I once got a credit card statement that told me I would be able to pay off my credit card in 100,000 years.

It was discouraging.


Once a colleague made an accounting error and it showed that we're in debt something like 100 million.... I told him to stay calm and relax, we don't have that kind of money so why worry :)


"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem"




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