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Linked List: December 11, 2005

Sunday, 11 December 2005

Japanese Brokerage Loses $224 Million on ‘Typing Error’ ★

Trader meant to sell 1 share for 610,000 yen, but instead put 610,000 shares on the market for 1 yen apiece. But that’s not a typing error — it’s a user interface error. Whatever software he was using to enter the trade should have flagged it as an error before it was committed.

Michael Tsai: iPhoto 5 Annoyances ★

Nice list of UI gripes about iPhoto.