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by patrick451 841 days ago
This quote has done more damage to software usability than any other idea of the last 60 years. It has lead us to a state where software is unbearably slow because nothing was worth optimizing. Just like it's easy to go broke with thousands of minor expenses, it's easy to create sluggish software that has no obvious bottleneck because the whole damn thing is slow.