Oops, That Must Have Hurt

Whatever the glitch was, it’s always exciting to see a $175B company lose ~$50B in valuation in a few minutes. Kind of puts your day-to-day software bugs in the right perspective.

It reminded me of another famous software bug from 1996: the Ariane 5 launch. You can read about it here, yet the end result looked like that:

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