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reminds me of this time we kept getting bugs in our app from a super old android phone from 2011. we could never reproduce it with any other hardware. There wer
by onemiketwelve 2y ago
reminds me of this time we kept getting bugs in our app from a super old android phone from 2011. we could never reproduce it with any other hardware. There were only 4 users with this phone. We spent weeks trying to fix it but couldn't. I suggested we buy the 4 users a refurb phone from another brand. Would've cost like $300 total. Nope, not allowed. Something about not giving up as engineers.
We spent 3 weeks trying to fix it, which equaled $4500 in just my salary. we never ended up figuring it out.
- charleslmunger 2y agoA similar story: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41088357#comment32 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41088357#comment32 Years ago I bought some Korean phone with a foot long antenna and TV tuner on eBay because it was crashing at a disproportionate rate. It was just the nature of Android development at the time.
- fragmede 2y agoThat was an amazing read, how'd you come across it?
- charleslmunger 2y agoAt the time I was working on a prototype of what would eventually be open sourced as Cronet, which was Chromium's http stack repackaged to be embedded in Android apps, so I monitored chromium bugs in the network stack component that mentioned android. Cronet is still around, now open source and as far as I know is still the best all-around network stack for Android apps - fast, secure, supports modern protocols.