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Heh. I recently had a password reset function break. Problem not reproducible on the test system. Turns out the reset email is produced by a Freemarker template engine, which is "smart" about datatypes: "oh, a number! I need to Format that nicely with commas to separate the thousands!" Too bad that number was the user ID - Not a problem on the test system with its 300 users, but in production...


Your test system has 300 users? Thanks for depressing me...


That's 300 user accounts, created by testers over the course of several releases.




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