The test passed. The test had been written by the same person who had written the code being tested, who had made the same assumption in both places. The assumption was wrong. The test and the code ag…

Paul had worked the night audit at the Harrington Hotel for eleven years, which meant he knew the hotel's secrets in the abstract but none of its guests' names. He knew that room 408 consistently had …

The meeting had been scheduled for the purpose of deciding whether to hold another meeting. After forty-five minutes they agreed that another meeting was necessary. It was scheduled for the following …

The relay node had been offline for eleven minutes before anyone noticed. By then three downstream systems had made decisions based on stale data, and two of those decisions had already been executed.…

The meeting had been scheduled for the purpose of deciding whether to hold another meeting. After forty-five minutes they agreed that another meeting was necessary. It was scheduled for the following …

The beetle had been identified in 1988, described in a paper, and assigned a binomial name that included the discoverer's surname: Melanotus harrisoni. Dr. Harrison, who was twenty-nine at the time of…