It's not about how long someone is willing to wait with a timer and judge it on human timescales, it's about what is an appropriate length of time for the task.

It's not about how long someone is willing to wait with a timer and judge it on human timescales, it's about what is an appropriate length of time for the task. 30ms for a program to start, print hello world, and terminate on a modern computer is batshit insane, and it's crazy how many programmers have completely lost sight of even the principle of this.