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No, the right way is to have acceptance testing that doesn't make these kind of mistakes in the first place.
It's not like they're short of money.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see infrequently used but can save loads of time! Maybe people would use them more if they weren't hidden?
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Most of these hidden gems are already is VS2015 such as adding ",h" to display a watched item in hex, etc.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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TechCrunch has discovered that Facebook has stealthily launched official desktop PC and Mac chat apps with screen sharing — two features users have been begging for. Because the world needs a chat app or fifteen
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Using a simple layer-by-layer coating technique, researchers have developed a paper-based flexible supercapacitor that could be used to help power wearable devices. Now you're printing with power!
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Paper Caps are baaaaack baby yeah. 
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How do they compare with conventional non-flexable super caps?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A critical feature of modern workloads is the ability to distribute data across many nodes for faster access, management, and analysis, which is also known as a "divide and conquer" strategy. Because there's more than one open source DB out there
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302 simulated roundworm neurons running on a cheap hobbyist hardware platform. I - for one - etc. etc.
Worms on wheels - the apples will never be safe again
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Danny Kaye - Inch worm song
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Very cool. Now why didn't I think of that? I've got all these Beaglebones lying around. 
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This is your Arduino ... this is your Arduino on worms.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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As you may have read on the Windows Experience blog, Joe Belfiore announced today that Microsoft Edge is coming to iOS and Android, bringing the best browsing experience on Windows 10 to more pockets around the world. Hurrah, my current browser compatibility woes were getting a little stale
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Just look on the bright side; Edge doesn't support Conditional Comments.
<!--[if !IE]>
<link href="non-ie.css" rel="stylesheet">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]>
<link href="ie9only.css" rel="stylesheet">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<link href="iebutnot9.css" rel="stylesheet">
<![endif]-->
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Does that mean it ignores them instead of evaluating them, or that it skips the evaluation part and loads all 3 style sheets?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Think about the way this keeps the economy going.
Now companies need at least 1 or 2 more devs to support the new browser.
Very nice of Microsoft.
And no worries, AI can't handle the browser problem, cuz they ain't no logic to it! 
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A worrying amount of businesses aren't fully aware of where their data storage is physically located, new research has shown. Duh, in the computers!
I see them blinking the lights at me
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It's in the <airQuotes>cloud</airQuotes>, of course.
Point at a cloud and I'll tell you if it's in that one. 
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Half of decision makers don't know who the decision makers are. AKA "IT Department."
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You’ve probably heard the conventional wisdom that teams should be aligned around a common goal. But while it’s important to have a shared business objective, the idea that everyone needs to have the same goal is selling your engineering team short. Wrong!
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Finally, a Babel Fish that doesn't feed on brainwave energy To some level of "change"
Still, kind of neat if I ever left my house (or spoke with anyone)
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VulnScan is able to automatically deduce the root cause of the most common types of memory corruption issues. Not that any of you need it, but you might have to deal with someone else's code
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We need a version that'll run on a Politician, analyzing their campaign promises to their in-office actions. However, such may well indeed be too complex yet even for today's supercomputers.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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