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teeray 23 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

> 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.

eudamoniac 23 days ago [–]

"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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