From 324ba3b256aadd41cc553979800bd30f644d712b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Deldycke Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:55:14 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add satire about a billion dollar compensation breaking ERPs --- readme.md | 1 + readme.zh.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index b49c5cd..c756836 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ The *falsehood* articles listed below will have a comprehensive list of those fa - [Falsehoods about Economics](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/09/22/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-economics/) - Economics are not simple or rational. - [Decimal Point Error in Etsy's Accounting System](https://web.archive.org/web/20230615151102/https://old.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/hz4877/if_you_are_an_etsy_seller_do_not_purchase_postage/) - The importance of types in accounting software: missing the decimal point ends up with 100x over-charges. - [Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money](https://web.archive.org/web/20250326135824/http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/02/25k/) - Same error as above at Google Ads, or the danger of separating your pennies from your dollars, where $250 internal coupons turned into $25,000. My advice: [get rid of integers and floats for monetary values. Use decimals. Or fallback to strings and parse them, don't validate.](https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/1599113889093890049) +- [“The system can’t handle a billion dollars”](https://xcancel.com/signulll/status/1950294195039838480) - Insane compensation at Meta in the middle of the AI-boom breaks ERPs. - [Characters `<` and `>` in company names lead to XSS attacks](https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-software-attack/3355) - Because [UK allows companies to be registered with special characters](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/17/schedule/1/made), a hacker leveraged them to register `\"> LTD`, but also `; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD`, `BETTS & TWINE LTD` and `SAFDASD & SFSAF \' SFDAASF\" LTD`. - [Minutiae of company names](https://twitter.com/nthnmsmth/status/1587880523124408322) - How the rules of the State of Delaware and the IRS does not intersects. - [CLDR currency definitions](https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-40/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L87-L94) - Currency validity date ranges overlap due to revolts, invasions, new constitutions, and slow planned adoption. diff --git a/readme.zh.md b/readme.zh.md index 5e50a32..d677df0 100644 --- a/readme.zh.md +++ b/readme.zh.md @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ - [经济学谬误](http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2016/09/22/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-economics/) - 经济学不简单，也不理性. - [Etsy会计系统的小数点错误](https://web.archive.org/web/20230615151102/https://old.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/hz4877/if_you_are_an_etsy_seller_do_not_purchase_postage/) - 会计软件中类型的重要性：漏掉小数点会导致多收费100倍. - [两万五千刀的水分资金](https://web.archive.org/web/20250326135824/http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/02/25k/) - 这种把美元和美分切割的错误同样出现在谷歌广告中，把 250美元的内部优惠券变成了 25000美元. 我的建议是: [货币值抛弃小数和浮点数. 用 decimals. 或者用回字符串解析, 而不校验.](https://twitter.com/kdeldycke/status/1599113889093890049) +- ["系统无法处理十亿美元"](https://xcancel.com/signulll/status/1950294195039838480) - AI热潮中Meta公司疯狂的薪酬待遇导致ERP系统崩溃。 - [公司名称中的`<` 和 `>`会导致XSS攻击](https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-software-attack/3355) - 因为 [英国允许用特殊字符注册公司](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/17/schedule/1/made), 一个骇客利用这种方式注册 `\"> LTD`, but also `; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD`, `BETTS & TWINE LTD` and `SAFDASD & SFSAF \' SFDAASF\" LTD`. - [公司名称的细节](https://twitter.com/nthnmsmth/status/1587880523124408322) - 怎么让特拉华州和国税局的规则不冲突. - [CLDR货币定义](https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-40/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml#L87-L94) - 由于 叛乱、侵略、新法和缓慢的推进的计划，货币的有效日期范围出现重叠.