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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by teeray on Saturday August 22, 2026 @01:07PM (#49401610)
> These numbers only get larger with a larger perceived "Nothing we can do about it"

God forbid you say anything about it in a code review lest you get shouted down about premature optimization.

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by eudamoniac on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:37PM (#49402483)
"There're no metrics showing this is a problem (because it's not live yet), so I will not write it correctly!"

"This other unrelated thing in the code is slower, so writing this correctly is a poor use of time!"

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by letmehelpyou on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:53PM (#49404994)
This is closely related to the "There's no point in addressing that problem, because if/when it does become a problem, you'll have 10,000 other bigger problems to worry about" mentality -- which quite ironically, inevitably results in 10,001 things going wrong at an inopportune moment.
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