It Works On My Machine: The Universal Developer Lie

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It Works On My Machine: The Universal Developer Lie

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The classic "it works on my machine" defense, followed by the inevitable bloodbath when QA gets their hands on it. That moment when your perfectly functioning code suddenly develops sentience and chooses violence the second it touches a tester's machine. No amount of unit tests can prepare you for the mysterious environmental variables on Dave from QA's laptop that somehow still runs Windows Vista "because it's stable."

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