And somewhere out there is a person reading this post and coming to the conclusion "How can Google be stupid enough to hire people stupid enough to have abs() return a negative value."
Love the story! There is so much complexity in the world around as that seemingly obviously wrong things happen through the most unlikely chains of dependency.
> And somewhere out there is a person reading this post and coming to the conclusion "How can Google be stupid enough to hire people stupid enough to have abs() return a negative value."
Weird things can happen anywhere but I was wondering why this issue wasn't caught by test cases before it escaped to production? I would think that a compiler team would have low-level tests for such common functions.
Love the story! There is so much complexity in the world around as that seemingly obviously wrong things happen through the most unlikely chains of dependency.