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by YeGoblynQueenne 2578 days ago
Financial software doesn't have bugs like web applications have bugs. In one place I worked the software was older than every person who worked in the company (from the time of punched cards) and the system had 5-9s uptime. The majority of bugs had been caught and fixed by then and to change anything in the software you had to submit a ten-page form. Plus, nobody I knew ever got to work on the actual code running the company's main business - you only got to write job running scripts and the like.

In that kind of shop a bug is a big deal.

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It's not a bug it's a feature: the bank rakes in money and no one is the wiser.