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Tag results: Errors

Correcting An Error

Why error-correcting memory, long an obscure computing concept, suddenly has major relevance outside of the server room. At least according to Linus Torvalds.

Jan 06, 2021

Mistakes Were Made

Technology vendors like SAP may rake in billions of dollars a year helping big companies build complex tech infrastructures, but they screw up—often, at scale.

Jan 14, 2020

Doing Things The Wrong Way

Pondering the way that the creative process is often directed by rules which, in many cases, stifle creativity. Sometimes, you just have to throw the rules out.

Sep 24, 2019

Lucky Tickets

The South Carolina lottery system preps a big payout, thanks to a really annoying computer error. But is the state actually liable for the ticket flub?

Jan 04, 2018

We All Make Mistakes

If you make a mistake today, don't fret. Everyone else around you has made a bunch, too. Errors, in a lot of ways, give us our wrinkles as human beings.

May 17, 2016

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