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This is exactly the reason they responded. By changing the code quietly, they would implicate themselves. An official PR statement like this is obligatory. Wha
by deletes 12y ago
This is exactly the reason they responded. By changing the code quietly, they would implicate themselves. An official PR statement like this is obligatory.
What is more probable, that they a lying, or that the random generator generated not a single code that matched, which is very(!) improbable by itself, but two codes that belong to the same account, generated at the same iteration.
- paulgb 12y agoThis is not an official PR statement, it's an engineer responding at 11 PM (MLB is based on the east coast) with the information he/she had available. I don't think there's an intent to decieve here, just a mistaken guess of the probabilities involved. Hanlon's razor applies.
- glneo 12y agoHe has no idea that his team is a bunch of lazy outsourcers. He knows, he is just confused.