Whose bug is this anyway? (2012)

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.

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.

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.

Long ago comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939144