What is the most common error you see?

What is the most common error you see people doing over and over? Maybe some common wrong belief?

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Comments

[Michiel Hendriks]

Thinking that something is "simple", or even worse: "easy".

And once they have been burned enough by this error they will blow everything out of proportion, which generally leads to a downward spiral of diminished returns.

[Elango Sundar]

While api response throwing internal server error as 500

[Ross Henderson]

In my stack (Oracle APEX) I'd say it's instead validating data entry to prevent errors, it's trying to handle an insurmountable amount of potential exceptions with "nice error messages".

[Shreyash]

NullPointerException has been letting me down since eternity.
Next one is ConnectionTimedOutException

[thomasaudo]

Javascript scope by far

[devkevyn]

Developers not taught business skills, interpersonal or basically effective communication.

I had to encounter this personally dealing with clients, bosses and teammates.

[sonofhammer]

User error. Why do they keep using things in the way they weren't intended?

[stereobooster]

In my opinion if users using system as not intended this is UX problem

[Markel F.]

People using the 404 code for everything. Especially when there are more specific codes...

[Marco Antonio Dominguez]

I think the 2 most common errors in JS, are mostly:

• Trying to access any property into an undefined or null.
• Trying to invoke an attribute as a function, this can relate with the first point, anyhow I saw this too much.

In the management side:

• Not hear the people, it can be someone is about to leave the project/company.
• Not hear the recommendations before taking a poor technical decision.

In general:

• Over-optimize everything without setting the proper metrics.
• Keep technical debt growing.
• Set everything as an urgent requirement.

[stereobooster]

True: when everything is a priority, there is no prioritisation.

[Craig Nicol (he/him)]

At the language level : Variable length Indexed Lists are the only collection you need. Arrays, Sets, Hashtables, Dictionaries, Linked Lists, and others all are better solutions for some problems.