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Do Software Developers Take A Special Class To Be Stupid

I start up Windows to get something done that I need to finish tonight. Some process starts spewing error messages "Factset XYZ has the wrong permissions, contact Factset support with Error Code 123". It replicates this error code every 5 seconds. Which is making it really hard to fix whatever is wrong.

Why did the developer who wrote this think that his stupid process should keep trying to do whatever it is doing and spewing error messages every few seconds, forever? If I went away and took a nap, there would be thousands of error messages on the screen.

Finally killed Windows and am downloading a new ISO to reinstall (run in a VM).
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