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Bugs in Passing

A few days ago I noticed that one euro became 10 times more than its usual conversion value to Russian rouble (ruble). As shown on the picture below it was 1:430.96 instead of expected 1:43.096. At first, I thought of a sudden devaluation and rushed to financial websites for confirmation but they didn’t show any signs of it. I then wanted to announce my findings and cause panic on Wall Street (computers crash there too) but other battles with bugs set this problem aside. 

This evening I noticed that it was fixed (remotely, I suppose, on a distant server):

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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  1. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » Bugs in Passing (April Fools’ Day) Says:
    April 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 am

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