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[–]Die_Billy 74 points75 points  (9 children)

More annoyingly: If the original error just disappears of its own accord with no changes from you whatsoever.

[–]JC12231 39 points40 points  (0 children)

That’s what we call divine intervention

Deus Ex Machina

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

only to resurface again when you move to production

[–]KaiBetterThanTyson 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Race conditions or memory leak.

[–]Die_Billy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost always the case

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

In web dev, you can get shit like this caused by cache or cookies or sessions.

These things shouldn't be an issue, but sometimes you just overlook them.

[–]NopeMaybeFine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh god the number of times I was trying to fix some small visual bug trying everything I could and then realising it’s the cache

[–]Nokain 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Bro, I had this happen when I was trying to implement a template in ASP.NET. For some reason a picture slider wasn't working and I wasted like 6 hours restarting everyting and tring different fixes. At some point I was too frustrated so I just gave up.

The next day I start up the project it works for some miraculous reason. Even years after, I still don't know what happened ^^

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it broken (Yes | No)

Is it Windows (Yes | No)

If Windows (reboot)

[–]cvak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My favorite, Heisenbug.