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Why Do Computers Suck at Math?

You’ve probably seen this old chestnut by now. Insert your own joke here. Google can’t be wrong – math is! But Google is hardly alone; this is just another example in a long and storied history of obscure little computer math errors that go way back, such as this

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Why Programmers File the Worst Bug Reports

Who files better bugs? Users or developers? In How to Report Bugs Effectively, Simon Tatham notes that software developers, contrary to what you might think, file some of the worst bug reports: It isn’t only non-programmers who produce bad bug reports. Some of the worst bug reports I’ve

By Jeff Atwood ·
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