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by marvin 1853 days ago
In Norway, we call this class of error "a Kenneth", after everyone who logged in to see their tax return in 2012 received the tax return of a guy named Kenneth. The culprit was allegedly a misconfigured load balancer.
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I once got a credit card statement that told me I would be able to pay off my credit card in 100,000 years.

It was discouraging.

Once a colleague made an accounting error and it showed that we're in debt something like 100 million.... I told him to stay calm and relax, we don't have that kind of money so why worry :)
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem"