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The time smart quotes prevented the entire Office division from committing code

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    Kent Sharkey
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    The Old New Thing[^]:

    A colleague told a story of how he once broke the entire Office division’s ability to check in code because he accidentally checked in a syntax error to the script that is used to verify that your proposed change has satisfied all the pre-submit requirements such as passing static analysis and unit testing.

    Hoist on your own Autocorrect

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    • K Kent Sharkey

      The Old New Thing[^]:

      A colleague told a story of how he once broke the entire Office division’s ability to check in code because he accidentally checked in a syntax error to the script that is used to verify that your proposed change has satisfied all the pre-submit requirements such as passing static analysis and unit testing.

      Hoist on your own Autocorrect

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      MarkTJohnson
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      Too bad they fixed it. We wouldn't have been subjected to "New Outlook" if they hadn't.

      I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.

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      • K Kent Sharkey

        The Old New Thing[^]:

        A colleague told a story of how he once broke the entire Office division’s ability to check in code because he accidentally checked in a syntax error to the script that is used to verify that your proposed change has satisfied all the pre-submit requirements such as passing static analysis and unit testing.

        Hoist on your own Autocorrect

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        obermd
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        That's what they get for writing their code in MS-Word.

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