What is the funniest bug you've ever experienced?

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Published on 2008-10-06T19:40:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 15:27 UTC
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I remember testing a geographical data normalizer written in Java that had concurrency problems. So, when you tried to normalize a city (say "Rome") and another guy did that too (say "New york"), you would get the other guy's data normalized ("NEW YORK") instead of your query.

What's the bug that mostly made you smile in your career?

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