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You think I wanted 10MB of fonts? Nope. Talk to Public Affair's design team. You believe I wanted 200MB of images? Wrong. I wanted text, maybe some thumb-na
by at_a_remove 4y ago
You think I wanted 10MB of fonts? Nope. Talk to Public Affair's design team.
You believe I wanted 200MB of images? Wrong. I wanted text, maybe some thumb-nails with pop-up images. But the photography group has to exist for a reason.
20MB bundles of Javascript? Sorry, but between the trackers marketing wanted and the fact that my boss' boss wants to have some hip new framework on his resume means I'm stuck when maybe just some jQuery would have done the job.
You are thinking about the web circa 1995, with the Webmaster being the master. That's been gone for a while. We implement what others demand, and they don't care if it is slow on other machines, they don't give a damn if it isn't accessible, and they could care less if the content is essentially empty, just pictures of people smiling because they chose this product. We're really not in charge of this unless this is a passion project personal site or we're some scrappy little startup.
- wildrhythms 4y agoBingo. The technical decisionmaking has been delegated to product managers with business degrees who have probably never even used the product they're demanding be riddled with hundreds of KB of digital litter, much less written a single line of code. Capitalism will kill us all.
- at_a_remove 4y agoThis has nothing to do with capitalism, it is about engineers being overridden. You can find all kinds of similar hideous stories under communism, and more, with its fixation on central planning. Any system which decouples decision-making from local ground-truth wisdom will run into this kind of error.
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