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Re:You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) by mathattack on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:55AM (#28209315)
Your kind of work is absolutely necessary for commercial software to run. You’d get crucified in an internal IT department where funding is entirely driven by new features, and 80% done usually has to be good enough.
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Re:You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) by jbverschoor on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:05AM (#28209398)
What I think is funny, is that developers get the most advanced tools out there (IDE, repl, debuggers, etc), for free. But deliver junk, blaming "the user"

The same is true for resource requirements and performance. People complain about their OS (windows, macos, sometimes linux or some VM), and that it takes 1 whole minute to boot, while some projects take a couple of minutes to start.

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Re:You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) by detaro on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:10AM (#28209427)
Heh, on the other hand it's also not uncommon to see complaints that developers refuse to pay for good tools, despite knowing first-hand that good software is hard to make.
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Re:You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) by 3pt14159 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:54AM (#28209863)
My host OS takes about a second or two to boot and my VM OS takes about 5 seconds.

A whole minute would drive me insane. We should not be waiting this long for computers to turn on.

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Re:You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) by the_only_law on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:15AM (#28210782)
Currently my PC takes several minutes to boot, however I know the exact cause. I wonder how much boot time could be reduced by tuning settings, including not to start a lot if crap.
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Re:You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) by ornornor on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:32AM (#28326974)
And then, a few years down the line, “adding a simple button” takes a month because the foundation is rotten, the architecture is garbage, and spending any time refactoring or writing tests is “gold polishing” and “unnecessary work”. Never mind that everyone is afraid of changing anything in the application because ten other seemingly unrelated things will break. Fun times.
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