[kadoban]

> The thing that sets him off is that he is using a computer with enormous computing power and everything is slow.

If that's his complaint, then "clean code" isn't the problem. The problem is capitalism and/or human nature.

Once something performs acceptably well, ie good enough to sell it, performance isn't going to get any better. Flashy stuff and features get you money, going from 400ms to 100ms gets you...nothing.

[sgarland]

> going from 400ms to 100ms gets you...nothing.

According to Amazon [0] that'd be a 3% gain in sales (assuming the inverse holds true as getting slower, anyway).

[0] https://www.gigaspaces.com/blog/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-...

[kadoban]

That's if it's in your sales flow, not if it's in your software.

[mtrower]

Quite often the issue isn't 400ms vs 100ms, it's literally seconds vs single-digit ms.

> The problem is capitalism and/or human nature.

Fundamentally, yes.