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The thing is that you can build applications full-time for years where you just aren't doing that ever. I don't remember the last time I had a queue so large a

The thing is that you can build applications full-time for years where you just aren't doing that ever. I don't remember the last time I had a queue so large and in such a hot loop that it would matter, for example. And it was a channel. Lately it's been browser-side code in an interactive online game that has gotten me to think about data access patterns again so that it performs well on slow phones, but that's just not what most people are working on. We have this whole belabored HN meme where people complain how the internet is for documents, not applications. Do people in these comments really think generating those documents involves heavy data access patterns?

leaveyou 9y ago
>you can build applications full-time for years And then "being an experienced app builder" you decide to create Electron.. and now I have to use Electron applications which are productive and necessary (VS Code) but are frustrating like hell on anything but recent hardware because some moron somewhere doesn't know when to use linked lists instead of arrays.
- tiraralabasura 9y ago
  Sounds like you're arguing that Cheng Zhao is not a developer and the kind of "designer"/"app builder" that companies should try to avoid by asking "what is a linked list" and other theoretical questions during job interviews.