#FAIL
summary
Ten years of concrete failures and fixes: airport matrix screens reveal Windows 2000 evidence, a mall deployment exposes a TensorFlow face analyzer, a C time() fallback and epoch math sends timestamps to 1969, NaN from an IEEE‑754 prototype (MATLAB) crashes a driverless car, a divide‑by‑zero device driver deadlocks USS Yorktown, a 1983 binary‑search integer overflow survives until 2006, Ariane‑5 reused Ada code triggers self‑destruct, 19 satellites vanish from misconfigured launch settings, and a paper shows three quarters reproducible by simple unit tests.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:43KevlinHenney Screens
- 7:49Time traveling
- 8:59Time function
- 12:17NaN
- 15:02Simple testing can prevent most critical failures
- 17:17Validate your data
- 19:02Programming pearls
- 26:13Muphry's law
- 28:02More programming pearls
- 34:55101 things I learned in architecture school
- 45:18GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out
- 55:22Conclusion
- 56:24Outro
