…Hey guys, look! I made the black hole generator we were theorizing yesterday! See? I just have to press this button and
This comes from a comment someone made on Slashdot earlier today.
The idea is that bad programmers sometimes come up with clever ideas, often without thinking through the consequences. (Alternatively, good programmers sometimes come up with clever ideas but use them maliciously.)
For Reddit, the consequence was merely a slew of self-replicating comments on their articles. For an engineer working on the Large Hadron Collider…