Sometimes I encounter a typo or a grammatical mistake while reading, and I noticed this happening pretty frequently. I really wonder how much of it is real human errors vs some digital info loss in some form. I started to take note of each time I found a mistake, and as this list started to grow I thought it’d be interesting to share.
So here’s a (growing) list of mistakes I’ve found while reading.
(Some of these were pretty shocking to find due to the writer’s/company’s status and the manner of publication.)
The List
What Can We Learn from the Code in Git’s Initial Commit?, by Atlassian
“If you list the contents of Git’s initial commit, you’ll see the eight following C code files with a .c extension:
init-db.c
-update-cache.c
-write-tree.c”
- Missing a “-“ on the first element
Beej’s Guide to Network Concepts
“Neither 17 not 178 are larger”. Page 52.
“you’ll have to write code to determine when you’ve received a complete packet and the print out that data.”. Page 64.
“The sender must not send more than this without before getting an ACK from the receiver.”. Page 70.
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people
“Since being released in 1987 PowerPoint has grown exponentially to the point where it is now estimated than thirty million PowerPoint presentations are made every day.”
Ticket Servers: Distributed Unique Primary Keys on the Cheap, by code.flickr.net
“You really really don’t know want provisioning your IDs to be a single point of failure”