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by agrona 3312 days ago
The real trick is to know somebody who works on the product. Seems to be the only way I've ever seen any bug get reported and fixed.
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I remember submitting an early preview F# bug directly to dev email which I got together with compiler crash message related to some obscure attribute handling situation. I remember being very surprised that I could do it, and more so when I got a response! That was the first time I realized there are people like me behind this faceless Microsoft machine.

Funny, wildly different times, I don't think github was even popular (existed?) back then.

This is my favorite part about working at a big tech company. It's easy to find the right team and get them to fix highly specific things.