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I think you fell for satire. Another one of their articles: https://www.theolognion.com/programmer-invents-non-moving-car-claims-premature-optimization-is-the-r

I think you fell for satire. Another one of their articles: https://www.theolognion.com/programmer-invents-non-moving-car-claims-premature-optimization-is-the-root-of-all-evil/ https://www.theolognion.com/programmer-invents-non-moving-ca... Pretty good satire too I must say.

samokhvalov 6y ago
Obviously I did
- xtracto 6y ago
  Thank you for posting this. The site has some really good gems. As an avid Onion reader, this site is great.
- ddingus 6y ago
  Well now I am going to go read it! Has to be good, right? Shit happens, right? No worries. :D
flukus 6y ago
It might be satire, but it hits way to close to the mark. I've worked on so many simple applications with layers and layers of cruft that really could be simplified to postgres, cron and a couple of cgi scripts.
etrautmann 6y ago
The next article is “expert says IoT devices safe because they barely work anyway” https://www.theolognion.com/expert-says-iot-and-smart-home-devices-are-very-safe-because-they-barely-work-anyway/ https://www.theolognion.com/expert-says-iot-and-smart-home-d...