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Matter to whom? If your primary audience is other developers then it absolutely does not matter. In fact it’s a way to expose deep anger. All that matters is c
by austin-cheney 2y ago
Matter to whom?
If your primary audience is other developers then it absolutely does not matter. In fact it’s a way to expose deep anger. All that matters is convenience and measurements just piss people off, because measuring anything is just too hard.
If your primary audience is business, especially transactional finance, then absolutely yes. Squeeze absolutely every millisecond out, measure absolutely everything in terms of transaction quantity, focus on concurrent operations.
- jart 2y agoConvenience is the kind of thing a man values when he isn't pushing against any fundamental limits imposed by the universe. You have to work on computing frontiers like LLMs where people are feeling a performance crunch. Measuring things is what separates software engineering from computer programming. Computer science degenerates into social science when your computer is 100x faster than the thing you're building, since then you have no need to measure things. Without extreme self-imposed discipline, your work in that kind of environment will spiral into bloated decadence, unless you move on to the next computing frontier.