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by jedberg 2048 days ago
That is not how things work in the real world. Sure, the fix itself might take 30 minutes. But then you have to validate it. And run a canary. And crosscheck your revenue numbers to make sure it didn't have an adverse affect elsewhere.

That's a lot of work for something that will probably mean very little extra revenue.

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I assume they already have the quality assurance pipeline in place at Tinder and don't need to reinvent it from scratch for every bug report.
Of course they do. But it still takes time, effort, and resources to run through the QA pipeline.