Conspiracy Theory...

Conspiracy theory used to be a neutral legal term describing the supposition of collusion between political, criminal, or civil interests between disparate organizations to cause harm to a person or entity. In modern usage, it is used in a manipulative and propagandist way as part of ad hominem attacks on the credibility of a claim. I see bugs in major websites like Facebook every day, and often these are quite transient and difficult to reproduce during their short life-span. Many would call me a conspiracy-theorist in their Pollyanna effort to avoid ruffling the corporations that might feed them in the future, but I just caught a little fish, and so here it is. I posted a 'status' update on fb, and when I went to my profile to look at it, it was doubled-up, like so:

It's plain to see that there's no funny-business - both updates show roughly the same time: "less than a minute ago", and they are identical. One could chalk it up to bad de-bouncing in the button code, and I'm certain that without some serous organization it would be difficult at best to reproduce. I'm guessing the debouncing code does not account for the particular traits of a broadband connection from Nicaragua - tired relays, and tragic DNS machines, resulting in a fairly stable throughput with exceptionally high jitter in packet-response time. Let's leave that to better propeller-heads than self, but it's hard to feel sorry for engineers who do this wrong after getting, literally, millions of dollars to leave a perfectly cool company like Google to join fb.

It's a bug-du-jour!