it's not a bug, it's a feature

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英文释义

短语
  1. What one user may consider a software bug, other users may consider to be a useful feature or an intentional consequence of the system's design.
  2. A self-deprecating response when confronted by a bug in the software that one is authored or is introducing to another user. humorous
  3. Affirms the validity of a counterintuitive behavior within a system; it is by design. broadly
    — One annoyance, or maybe it’s one of those “it’s-not-a-bug-it’s-a-feature” situations, is the gearshift.

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INABIAF alternative it's a feature, not a bug alternative

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one man's trash is another man's treasure

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Coined by American computer programmer Sandra Lee Harris in 1971 at Digital Equipment Corporation.
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