@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected]English • 1 day agoYes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the timewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1200
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minus-squareRhaedaslinkfedilink15•1 day agoIt wasn’t that hard. Don’t ask how I know. 5 cents a minute doesn’t seem like a lot even in 80s dollars, but…well, time flies… And it’s true, that bill only shows up once a month, by then the damage is done.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•edit-223 hours agoParent wouldn’t want to change from 56k to cable. Parent was shown the wonders of IRC. One phone bill later… We’d better get cable.
It wasn’t that hard. Don’t ask how I know. 5 cents a minute doesn’t seem like a lot even in 80s dollars, but…well, time flies… And it’s true, that bill only shows up once a month, by then the damage is done.
Parent wouldn’t want to change from 56k to cable.
Parent was shown the wonders of IRC.
One phone bill later… We’d better get cable.