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> CPU cycles are much cheaper than developer wages. CPU cycles are cheap. Dev time is expensive. User time is sacred. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/scope-in
by loup-vaillant 4y ago
> CPU cycles are much cheaper than developer wages.
CPU cycles are cheap.
Dev time is expensive.
User time is sacred.
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/scope-insensitivity https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/scope-insensitivity
- xupybd 4y ago>User time is sacred. Why? What if the user is a machine operator? He is standing around waiting for the machine to finish it's current cycle. As long as he can get his data entry done in the time he is waiting it costs the business nothing.
- _aavaa_ 4y agoI am not sure how to explain that "user time is sacred" is from the point of view of the user, not of the business where the user is treated as a cog in a machine.
- loup-vaillant 4y agoIt's a game of numbers. Few developers, many users. The more users you have the more sinful it is to waste their time. But we don't realise it because we have no idea how harmful it really is to waste a few seconds a day for millions of users.