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hinkley 5 hours ago

Therac is the first one I list and Knight Capital is the second. It is in fact possible to bankrupt your company by misusing feature toggles.

throwyawayyyy 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I learned about Therac at college in the 90s.

Some years later, I interviewed at Knight Capital, just a couple of weeks before their blowup. (Dreadful interview at which I did dreadfully, being asked to write C _over the phone_ by a supremely uninterested engineer. Quite a red flag in retrospect.)

bitwize 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds like my Amazon interview.

hinkley 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I feel like you should get yourself a merit badge printed for that, sewed onto your laptop bag.

reitzensteinm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Quite a red flag in retrospect.

No pun intended?