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Theodorestoday at 9:55 AM0 repliesview on HN

Is that you, Julian?

I jest, but, once upon a time I worked with an infallible developer. When my projects crashed and burned, I would assume that it was my lack of competence and take that as my starting point. However, my colleague would assume that it was a stray neutrino that had flipped a bit to trigger the failure, even if it was a reproducible error.

He would then work backwards from 93 million miles away to blame the client, blame the linux kernel, blame the device drivers and finally, once all of that and the 'three letter agencies' were eliminated, perhaps consider the problem was between his keyboard and his chair.

In all fairness, he was a genius, and, regarding the A320 situation, he would have been spot on!