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Never say "it didn't work"

2 pointsby markl426 days ago

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gladiatr726 days ago
Deal. However,that means the documentation has to be kept up to date, and your thing&#x27;s log output has to emit useful information. Sometimes, alas, ya do exactly what the docs state, nothing happens and nothing is reported. It doesn&#x27;t work.<p>The worst example (ok, top 5) was the wkhtmltopdf binary that Google used to distribute. It was billed as a static binary that should just work.<p>And it did, if you had the openssl dev headers installed. Maybe the in-house Linux distro had openssl dev headers 0as part of its base, but unless you were aware of strace you were not going to figure it out. it just didn&#x27;t work.<p>edit: I don&#x27;t hold it against whoever put that binary up. Webkit was an absolute beast to compile from source.