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Re:Arguing against using protobuffers by pdpi on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:44AM (#18192089)
Thinking of that problem in terms of engineers not being the biggest expense is also a silly way to approach the problem.

At 20000 engineers, it’s a net positive to add a full time person to save everybody else 5 seconds a day. If protobuf were such a big waste of engineering time, then working to make it more efficient for engineers while being no worse on the wire would be worth a lot of dedicated engineers.

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Re:Arguing against using protobuffers by virtualized on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:02AM (#18194067)
That's why Microsoft made sure that Windows Update always runs in the background and never reboots during a presentation. Oh wait..
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