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Whose bug is this anyway? (2012)

by NegatioN on 7/16/24, 6:12 PM with 4 comments

  • by o11c on 7/21/24, 1:35 AM

    It's fine for dev and production to be compiled differently, but the whole point of staging is that there should be no artifact differences from production, only a bit of configuration.

  • by LorenPechtel on 7/21/24, 4:10 PM

    Long, long ago I chased one bug into the compiler--sent it off to Microsoft and months later heard back with a can't-reproduce.

    And in time I find out that my bug was real, but fixed before they looked at what I sent.

  • by TonyTrapp on 7/21/24, 4:42 PM

    One of my favourite blog posts (and blogs in general), so glad to see it (re-)posted. Really interesting takeaways to keep in mind when you run into inexplicable bugs or memory dumps.

  • by brudgers on 7/10/24, 5:39 PM