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[–] [email protected] 123 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Thats a very elaborate, specific bug that just so coincidentally happens to be monetarily beneficial to the developer/publisher.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Once I was programming a fintech solution for a big client. Someone way back when made an error in how numbers (money, cents) are to be rounded up or down. When you had to create a new feature that handled money, you had to reproduce that bug (since users got used to the math being wrong)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, it happens to all of us. Just the other day I was working on letting users change the font in an app and I accidentally made it so they needed to enter a valid credit card number to log in, complete with detailed instructions, and then accidentally charged them $20.

Not sure how any of that happened. I'll definitely get around to disabling it soon though, I promise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Ah, so true. How could I have overlooked this?