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Aaaand for anyone who is reminded of the BOFH excuse list:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/excuses

This is great.

"Zombie processes haunting the computer"

It's a real thing!

While I understand where a few of these are coming from, a lot of them can be dumb mistakes:

There must be something wrong with your data - We didn't build in any error-checking

Oh, that was just a temporary fix - Nobody ever followed up on that

That worked perfectly when I developed it - We never tested it

etc

"Is it documented anywhere that we support that?"

Is there an API for this?

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