Fixing Bugs

Brent Simmons discusses NetNewsWire 2.0 and mentions that he prefers fixing bugs:

This, luckily for me, is my favorite part of software development. I enjoy fixing bugs much more than I enjoy adding big new features, probably because I can fix a bunch of bugs in a few hours. It’s like eating chocolates throughout the day instead of eating one big steak once a week.

MD5 Collision

Ned Batchelder:

Looks like the venerable MD5 cryptographic hash has developed a crack: A real MD5 collision. A team has published two different input streams which hash to the same MD5 value. Of course, because of the pigeonhole principle, everyone knew this had to happen. But no one had ever found a pair before.

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