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> A big problem with software dev is the lack of rigor, imo. It's amazing to me how much more informed you can seem than everyone else if you just read the thi
by withoutboats3 3y ago
> A big problem with software dev is the lack of rigor, imo.
It's amazing to me how much more informed you can seem than everyone else if you just read the thing everyone is quoting.
- insanitybit 3y agoIndeed. I have brought this up when people reference "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and mistakenly attribute a false meaning to it. What an approachable paper, what is the excuse for not simply reading it? To boil it down to one quote and then to use that quote to dogmatically advocate for practically the opposite of the point is... sigh. I've also been banging the "you are using 'IO Bound wrong'" drum for years and still this persists. HN is a daily example of this. Reading the blog post immediately highlights all of the comments where users seemingly did not.