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Re:Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe prog... by JustSomeNobody on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:18AM (#16143954)
It's not about developer time. Get over yourselves. It is about how long the user has to wait for a page to load or a compute to finish.
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Re:Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe prog... by bandrami on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:28AM (#16144159)
And for that matter, it can take as long to select the library and learn the API as it would have to write the function to begin with.
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