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by sker 3700 days ago
Dude should have made a small fortune selling optimization services to those big corps.
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There was a 3 job string in the late nineties where the first impressive thing I did was go fix the log levels of the code and get transaction times down by 50%. Sometimes the simplest tricks are the best.

I've also been known to take a couple minutes off a build process or fix something that is annoying everybody to break the ice.