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This times a thousand. When you first write the software you're basing it on expectations, no matter how well you plan, but when you rewrite it you're coming at
by nicholassmith 14y ago
This times a thousand. When you first write the software you're basing it on expectations, no matter how well you plan, but when you rewrite it you're coming at it with real world knowledge of the pain points so of course it's going to be better in terms of performance.
- omaranto 14y ago"This times a thousand" would be an improvement by a factor of 10000. The improvement should definitely not be that large.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoYou're getting downvoted because the poster was referring to the gravity/importance of the message.
- omaranto 14y agoThanks for the explanation, skeletonjelly. I think the reason I misunderstood is that I don't hang out on the Internet enough: a friend explained to me that "This." and "this times a thousand" are Internet slang that mean "I agree" (the second, presumably means something like "On a scale from 1 to infinity my agreement level is 1000." :). As far I know these expressions aren't used verbally, which would explain why I took it literally.
- xenophanes 14y agoIt means repeat it a thousand times for emphasis.
- dguaraglia 14y agoLOL, apparently sarcasm and witty banter is not HN forte :P
- freditup 14y agoWe don't all have English as our first language, and there's no problem with that. I'd have replied exactly as you did if I thought he literally meant "this times a thousand"
- nicholassmith 14y agoI included an extra bit of improvement to deal with inflation rates.