The Four Horsemen Of A Dev's Apocalypse

Exceptions Memory management Deployment Cpp Environment errors Code review

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The Four Horsemen Of A Dev's Apocalypse

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The biblical apocalypse had four horsemen, but developers face their own nightmarish quartet! The first horseman, NullPointerException, strikes when you least expect it—trying to use an object that doesn't exist. The second, Segmentation Fault, is that memory-mangling monster that crashes your C/C++ program faster than you can say "core dump." Third comes Merge Conflict, turning your Git workflow into a battlefield of incompatible changes. But the most terrifying horseman? "It works on my machine"—the ghostly specter of environment-specific bugs that magically disappear during demos but return to haunt production. These four harbingers of doom have ended more coding sessions than caffeine crashes ever could!

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