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Maybe I'm really lucky, but in my entire programming career (12 years) I can only remember 2 or 3 bugs that weren't caused by errors in the top-level, most abstract, version of the code.

i.e. bugs that were due to compiler/bare metal/etc. problems. I remember a bug in old-skool asp that would only surface due to some weird code condition, a bug with an IMAP server we made used by Outlook that was caused by them using an int16 to store ids, and a race condition bug.

I've worked almost entirely in web dev with a mix or enterprise, b2b and b2c systems, with some of those having millions of users, some of them being intensive SQL.




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