optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive
um acktually you can't build services faster by hiring tons of people ๐ค๐ค
Reading comprehension: you lack it.
huginn
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That's not what I said or even remotely implied.
If you want a good back end that isn't bloated you can't use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they're doing.
It's a fight I'm constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was "self documenting".
These contractors weren't paid to care - I don't blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.
But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps
And the way you don't bloat your backend?
Expensive engineers
What do you mean their day is half an hour?
My e-reader battery barely flutters after several hours of reading.
So does Android.
It's just a moral panic, as usual.
Politicians love moral panic.
Yeah I love Tom.
The long distance touring cycling community consensus seems to be belt and hub... But bring a spare belt. That's just from me lurking on bike buying advice forums because I'm too chicken to lock my bike up on the street and don't have much room in my apartment.
It definitely changes the cost of ownership somewhat but I've had issues with chain and derailer for every bike I've owned at some point or another. Part of that is the American obsession with having both front and rear detailers.
I'd take a bike that I'd 1/10th as likely to break down over a bike that is easy to repair when it does.
I'm considering taking up seasonal bike commuting. Belt drive and internal hub seems like a must tbh.
The vcr porn thing is a myth fwiw
Definitely - hiring isn't easy.
But you'll never get value for money from engineers who don't care, and you have a 0% chance of a cheap contractor caring.
Again - I don't blame them. They shouldn't care. The company clearly doesn't respect them.
But it's a false economy.