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fromTheregister
1 month ago

Developer scored huge own goal by deleting football data

Pete explained how the data for football matches, including attendance, was stored in a straightforward MySQL database, which he updated through a Perl program.
Web development
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Developer wrote a critical app and forgot where it ran

"Excited by the challenge, I spent a weekend researching asymmetric keys and built a licensing system that periodically checked in with the server."
Software development
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