landmine

If this turns out to be a landmine, it will be the publishing industry that planted it.

Let's hope that the next cause of a rapid unscheduled disassembly won't be the rocket landing on a landmine.

The original engineer knew that they hadn’t properly solved the problem and left it as a landmine for someone else.

The following had happened there a few years ago: a client required a DSP to calculate the weight on a landmine switch.

We've had weapons that choose to kill on their own since the landmine.

Though seriously, I think the term landmine is loaded toward using patents exclusively as a troll.

It's still not quite fully signed up to the landmine treaty.

I'd much rather have my name on a parking lot than on a landmine.

Locally scoped statics are still the moral equivalent of globals, and a waiting landmine for anyone who might ever run this code in a multithreaded environment.

The landmine was meant as an illustration, not as a particular item, it could just as well have been a clusterbomb or some other intrinsically negative item.

I don't know whether they'd apply to anything else, or whether there is prior art, but they're an obvious landmine to be aware of and to avoid.

((Of course the whole point of Gödel's incompleteness theorems is that there's no sharp line between mathematical and metamathematical; any unproven proposition might turn out to be an unprovable landmine.

In short, the client should not do this - client-side fallback is dangerous ("a landmine" to quote agl).

"We've had weapons that choose to kill on their own since the landmine." You're right.

I mean its certainly possible that in some tiny fraction of cases I might say "man I could fix this a lot easier if I had the merge commit" its just in the 10,000's of examples that form my experience I haven't stepped on that particularly landmine yet.