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well_doneon Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

Coming across as BOFH was not my intention at all, maybe I should refrain from using emojis to convey meaning ;)

I just thought that if you're working in a high pressure environment (and this applies to virtually every coding shop I've ever known) and get trouble from all sides all the time it feels reassuring to know that in fact, not you are the problem, neither is your employer, stuff like this just happens even to the best.

well_doneon Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

Well, let's take a breath and be grateful that even MS can mess something like this up.

One dev or 1000, who cares, whatever they chose did not work particularly well. Are "they" to blame? Yes. Are the engineers to blame? Probably not. Is management the culprit? We don't know.

What's left? Next time your customers bug you about some random downtime caused by an overworked datacenter intern, don't feel stressed. Take the time to remember that even if you would've had billions of dollars, years of experience and thousands of employees, you could've messed up, just like MS did :)