Comment by jonfw

2 hours ago

I used to work with a guy who would always say "if you're looking for trouble, you are going to find it"

When I hear that "we found X bugs using some new tool", where the standard for bugs is low and doesn't neccessarily require user impact in realistic scenarios, I think to myself- duh! You went looking for bugs, of course you found them.

For a sufficiently complicated product, in my experience, you don't have to look far.

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tialaramex  1 minute ago

> if you're looking for trouble, you are going to find it

That's the "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" of unsafe languages.

There are huge swathes of problems we know how to categorically prevent, but some people won't do it because they're more comfortable believing it was never preventable than accepting any culpability for not preventing it previously.