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> The thing that sets him off is that he is using a computer with enormous computing power and everything is slow. If that's his complaint, then "clean code" i

> The thing that sets him off is that he is using a computer with enormous computing power and everything is slow. If that's his complaint, then "clean code" isn't the problem. The problem is capitalism and/or human nature. Once something performs acceptably well, ie good enough to sell it, performance isn't going to get any better. Flashy stuff and features get you money, going from 400ms to 100ms gets you...nothing.

mtrower 4y ago
Quite often the issue isn't 400ms vs 100ms, it's literally seconds vs single-digit ms. > The problem is capitalism and/or human nature. Fundamentally, yes.
raspberry1337 4y ago
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- rando14775 4y ago
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  - dsego 4y ago
    I want my car to have a subscription to nice heated seats when I am stuck in traffic after working unpaid overtime.
  - raspberry1337 4y ago
    >Cars weren't as big a priority for the communists. They were right too, cars and car infrastructure are super inefficient. How to say that you're a city kid, without saying you are a city kid.
    - CorrectHorseBat 4y ago
      Well yes, rural infrastructure is super inefficient compared to urban infrastructure.
  - kunley 4y ago
    The industralization of the Soviet Union was done at the cost of the massive hunger, the murders of Great Purge and making disturbance to the neighbor contries (I am talking about pre 1939 now, WW2 soviet atrocities are not even scratched here), resulting in millions of deaths, and bringing misery to generations, in some areas until today.
    - sgarland 4y ago
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sgarland 4y ago
> going from 400ms to 100ms gets you...nothing. According to Amazon [0] that'd be a 3% gain in sales (assuming the inverse holds true as getting slower, anyway). [0] https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-latency-cost-them-1-in-sales https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-...
- kadoban 4y ago
  That's if it's in your sales flow, not if it's in your software.

mtrower 4y ago

Quite often the issue isn't 400ms vs 100ms, it's literally seconds vs single-digit ms. > The problem is capitalism and/or human nature. Fundamentally, yes.

raspberry1337 4y ago

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rando14775 4y ago
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- dsego 4y ago
  I want my car to have a subscription to nice heated seats when I am stuck in traffic after working unpaid overtime.
- raspberry1337 4y ago
  >Cars weren't as big a priority for the communists. They were right too, cars and car infrastructure are super inefficient. How to say that you're a city kid, without saying you are a city kid.
  - CorrectHorseBat 4y ago
    Well yes, rural infrastructure is super inefficient compared to urban infrastructure.
- kunley 4y ago
  The industralization of the Soviet Union was done at the cost of the massive hunger, the murders of Great Purge and making disturbance to the neighbor contries (I am talking about pre 1939 now, WW2 soviet atrocities are not even scratched here), resulting in millions of deaths, and bringing misery to generations, in some areas until today.
  - sgarland 4y ago
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sgarland 4y ago

> going from 400ms to 100ms gets you...nothing. According to Amazon [0] that'd be a 3% gain in sales (assuming the inverse holds true as getting slower, anyway). [0] https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-latency-cost-them-1-in-sales https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-...

kadoban 4y ago
That's if it's in your sales flow, not if it's in your software.