Sunday, February 3, 2013

Don't Type! Software Defects

Don't Type!  That which holds the image of a bug becomes itself a bug.
Today I learned a lesson on software defects while transcribing my handwritten lecture notes on, paradoxically, software defects in medical devices. I attempted to highlight recent examples of software defects.  The lesson can be summed up with this screenshot.

Warning: reproduce at your own risk.  My moleskin notebook also appears to have spontaneously combusted after writing the magic eight characters.