{"id":862,"date":"2009-09-10T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T22:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=862"},"modified":"2009-09-15T21:29:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T04:29:29","slug":"worlds-most-famous-developer-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/09\/10\/worlds-most-famous-developer-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Most Famous Developer Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say that the World&#8217;s most commonly used excuse is &#8220;<b>it works on my machine<\/b>&#8220;.  Amongst programmers this excuse must rank up there with other famous excuses like &#8220;It&#8217;s not you, it&#8217;s me&#8221; and &#8220;sorry, I guess I didn&#8217;t get reception.&#8221;  When ever I hear a developer explain away broken builds, compilation errors, or bugs with &#8220;it works on my machine&#8221; I usually answer with one of the following replies, depending on my mood.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh, are going to ship your machine to the client.<\/li>\n<li>Do you want all of us to work on your machine.<\/li>\n<li>Yeah, so fix it on my machine!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_870\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span class=\"frame-outer  size-full wp-image-870\"><span><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-870\" data-attachment-id=\"870\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/09\/10\/worlds-most-famous-developer-excuse\/break-it\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/break-it.png\" data-orig-size=\"501,214\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Breat It\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;You Break It, You Buy It&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/break-it-300x128.png\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/break-it.png\" src=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/break-it.png\" alt=\"You Break It, You Buy It\" title=\"Break It\" width=\"415\" height=\"177\" class=\"size-full wp-image-870\" srcset=\"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/break-it.png 501w, http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/break-it-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><p id=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You Break It, You Buy It<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say that the World&#8217;s most commonly used excuse is &#8220;it works on my machine&#8220;. Amongst programmers this excuse must rank up there with other famous excuses like &#8220;It&#8217;s not you, it&#8217;s me&#8221; and &#8220;sorry, I guess I didn&#8217;t get reception.&#8221; When ever I hear a developer explain away broken builds, compilation errors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,3],"tags":[42,48,49,30,46,47,804,805],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}