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Because it saves lives. https://folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html https://folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html: "Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boo
by Someone 2y ago
Because it saves lives. https://folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html https://folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html:
"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?”
- speed_spread 2y agoBy that logic, Electron apps kills people. Makes sense.
- HPsquared 2y agoSomewhere along the causal chain of "what went wrong leading to this death", almost certainly there will be some cases of a slow app indirectly (maybe even directly in some cases) causing deaths. It's a question of what we mean by "cause". That's not even counting loss of quality-adjusted life years from time spent staring at a screen waiting, like being stuck in traffic.
- ab71e5 2y agoThat assumes booting is a synchronous action instead of asynchronous, giving time to fetch a cup of coffee