This is an enormous problem with software in general. IMO it's probably because software has been abstracted into the stratosphere to the point that most developers aren't at all aware of resources or even the machine it's running on. That's someone else's problem. I really hate it.

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chatmasta 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

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Yoric 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

While the problem is very real, I don't think it's the fault of abstractions or even developers. If you have to fight your product manager for the authorization to spend a little time using resources correctly, it is probably because there's no organization-wide incentive to reduce resource usage of a web application, unless you're called Apple, Google or Mozilla.

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		It’s a mix, probably. In some cases it’s organizational, it there’s absolutely also devs who take a cavalier attitude towards optimization.

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1270018080 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Whenever I refactor and endpoint that takes the p99 from 1 minute to 1 second, I think about how a 4k video being uploaded undoes all of that progress

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pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Of which, the biggest example is shipping Chrome with the application.