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You can call them low priority bugs all you want, but Gmail has been around for over a decade and I'm betting their team employs at least 50 developers... Surel
by julianlam 6y ago
You can call them low priority bugs all you want, but Gmail has been around for over a decade and I'm betting their team employs at least 50 developers... Surely one of them could fix it?
- karottenreibe 6y agoIt's likely not getting fixed because the opportunity costs are higher than the reward of fixing it: https://erikbern.com/2020/03/10/never-attribute-to-stupidity-that-which-is-adequately-explained-by-opportunity-cost.html https://erikbern.com/2020/03/10/never-attribute-to-stupidity...
- reaperducer 6y ago"Opportunity costs" are very often, as in this case, just an excuse for being too lazy to do the right thing. When people have pride in their work and want to put out a quality product, instead of "optimizing" for pennies, then things get fixed.