6 ms·

Huh, maybe the thinking that everything has to be perfect is rooted in products where people do pay for what's under the hood? I.e. literally cars.

• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Cars are just a ruthlessly optimized collection of parts that, individually, few people understand. Not unlike software. Unless you're a specialist, you wouldn't know "bad insides" of a car from "good insides" if you took a look under your car's hood. The way I see it, programmer perfectionism comes from learning - the projects you do for yourself, early on, are small enough that you can hit perfect trade-offs on your limited needs, and you aren't under time pressure. You quickly learn you can achieve near-perfection - a lesson which stops applying when working with any nontrivial codebase at work.
• burnt_toast 5y ago
  There's plenty of cars out there that mechanics think are designed like junk yet drivers (users) still buy / use them. (Not sure where I was going with this)
  • bserge 5y ago
    Even then, buyers care about performance.
    • Sebb767 5y ago
      I'd say most buyers care about looks and comfort, with reliability and features next. Of those buyers who care about performance, most just want _some_ performance (i.e. having a bit of spice). If you're getting in the real performance space, things like solid corner handling and engine behavior when going all-out, you'll have lost most people. You can add a lot of spice by propping up the care with some nicely tuned turbo, pedal behavior and cooling that is sufficient for just a few accelerations. Most people will never find out the difference.