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What is with Zoom misspelling everything? Their shady installer pops up "System request administrator privileges", and the code it runs misspells "retina" as "r

• icedchai 7y ago
  Probably because they don't employ native English speakers for this sort of work. Also, no QA. You'd expect these errors in a 3 person startup, not a public company worth almost 40 billion USD.
• abiogenesis 7y ago
  Lack of code reviews and quality assurance. It is also reported that their engineering team are not native English speakers but I don't think that's the main issue. I've seen codebases full of spelling errors where all developers were native speakers.
  • randoglando 7y ago
    Yeah, that just seems to be dog whistling to me. A native speaker isn't going to think "reitna" is right but "retina" is not. It's just poor QA IMO.
  • tripzilch 7y ago
    I mean, I'm not a native speaker but I could do better than that :-)