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Is there a name for the law that states that every time you implement a recursive algorithm, you will accidentally create an infinite loop? Or is it just me?
(This message brought to you by the dozen or so servers I accidentally created yesterday in the span of a second or two.) 
I need the t-shirt: “YOU FORGOT TO UPDATE THE COUNTER!”
@aral that's quick 
@aral that would actual sell
@aral wouldn't a mug be a better idea? have it visible at all times. 
@greenWhale True :)
@aral @greenWhale we need a book full of classic mistakes and results of there of.
I dropped the only development database the day before a marketing website release date. ( Oh the wild 00's )
After that we moved into development on a developer's machine and added migrations instead of ad-hoc creating tables on a server.
@nemeciii @greenWhale We could call it Shit (that) happens. Have a dung beetle for the cover or something :P
@greenWhale @aral You could also work on the kitchen counter so you never forget.
Okay, sorry.
@aral Stan::ley() was responsible for calling a new Stan::ley() without any of the fuzz about counters and arguments and pointers and whatever newfangled buisness the folks presented in the meeting room.
And Stan::ley() was happy.
@jonoabroad Haha, indeed :)
@aral
Tail's law 
@aral Balkan’s Law.
@proedie Oh, please no :)
@aral Been racking my brains for an appropriate law name, and the best I’ve come up with is Turtle’s Law - as in “turtles all the way down”.
@aral that's why in any recursive method I create, the first thing I do is creating the logic for max number of recursions