Famous bugs
The story of the world’s first software bug
You’ve probably heard the story about the moth in the logbook at Harvard. This post is about what actually happened.
Famous bugs
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Famous bugs
How a single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
It’s Tuesday, June 4th, 1996, and the European Space Agency is set to launch its new Ariane 5 rocket for the first time. This is the culmination of a decade of design, testing and a budget spending billions of euros.
The goal of Ariane 5 is simple, but the