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0 pointsmcguire5y ago0 comments

And cue the traditional response: "Developer time is much more expensive than computer time, so it doesn't make sense to spend any effort optimizing."

:-(

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pdimitar5y ago

That might be true in isolation but repeat it enough times and it's actually much cheaper to have several highly paid programmers work on it for several years, compared to so much time and energy lost otherwise...

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0 pointsmcguire5y ago0 comments

And cue the traditional response: "Developer time is much more expensive than computer time, so it doesn't make sense to spend any effort optimizing."

:-(

0 comments

pdimitar5y ago

That might be true in isolation but repeat it enough times and it's actually much cheaper to have several highly paid programmers work on it for several years, compared to so much time and energy lost otherwise...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse