4 ms·

most bugs are obvious after someone has pointed them out to you.

• cooldeal 15y ago
  I think the point is that it's a basic dev and QA fail not to check for this, especially with people of the caliber that Google is supposed to recruit.
  • trotsky 15y ago
    Process always falls down at some point, it's why we have bugs in the first place. The point of view that "obvious bugs should never happen" is pretty obviously broken, you just try to make them as rare as humanly possible. Besides, simple looking things from the outside can be maddeningly complex from the inside - for all we know this could be related to an obscure bug in their test framework marking it as passed when it isn't. Most of the time when people say "what a stupid mistake" they mean "that's a mistake I haven't made yet"
    • pueblo 15y ago
      Well said!