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Programmers and engineers have to apply this thinking holistically. The totality of waiting for slow software is enormous. Performance needs to be given a highe
by bhauer 3y ago
Programmers and engineers have to apply this thinking holistically. The totality of waiting for slow software is enormous. Performance needs to be given a higher priority by more development teams.
I don't tend to consciously sum all of the time I spend waiting on slow software and slow services. But waiting on slow software impacts my subconscious in the moment, making me feel uncomfortable and frustrated with the system, as if it is antagonistic. If I do spend any time consciously thinking about it, I feel disdain for the engineers and project leaders who believed that what they had produced was good enough to ship.
With the processing capacity of modern computers, waiting for hundreds of milliseconds for trivial requests, or much longer for only modestly-complex requests is evidence of gross negligence on the part of the programmers.
- khaledh 3y agoYep. Computers should wait for people, not the other way around (unless it's a long running batch job).
- Nevermark 3y agoI commented elsewhere about ADHD. So here is a story about a myself I won't name. O_o My Thursday night girlfriend wanted me to clean up an old MacBook. Just a few steps, unlinking accounts tied to hardware, figuring out how to remove a firmware key some other me must have set, a clean install, updates, etc. It took me 6 months, because several steps or restarts took more than single digit seconds ... and my work was a siren. After many aborted attempts, I put it on my desk next to my keyboard. It only took 30 minutes, spread across 6 hours. Victory! If someone chained my hands to the laptop it would have gone faster, but the suffering incurred by the forced observation of blank screens, status bars and busy balls would have been unimaginable.
- phist_mcgee 3y agoYou have a different girlfriend every night of the week?
- Nevermark 3y agoThat would be something! But sounds complicated. I have a committed girlfriend, and another girlfriend who just wants a man for Thursday nights. I do what I can!