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Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs

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A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes u

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I never got into GTA Online because I couldn’t stand the long load times. So they probably lost a shit ton of potential customers.

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