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0 pointsstefan_6y ago0 comments

Sure, but if your business is broken because of a 3rd party library, I'd sooner be looking at patching the bytecode than to write breathless "me too but we are very important" in the bug tracker.

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microcolonel6y ago

> patching the bytecode

Tell that to the developers who barely grasp that the JVM exists.

But yeah, the degree of helplessness people engineer themselves into without a second thought is absurd. I guess it's a blessing that the Play Store isn't embedding the Maps SDK and crashing before it can update the Maps SDK heheh.

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