> Software engineers have been led to believe that their time is more valuable than CPU time; therefore, wasting CPU cycles in order to reduce development time is always a win. They've forgotten, however, that the application users' time is more valuable than their time.
I've no words to express how much I agree with this. Developers who ship bloated software that chugs painfully even on high end computers, with the defense that "the developers time is more valuable than the CPU's", the developers who prefer to use brutally slower, but easier to use tools, they need to be reminded that this is their job. Your objective shouldn't be to make your own job easier. It should be to deliver the best product you can, and the best experience to the users. Not make them suffer long loading times, slow applications, unresponsiveness, and massive size bloat so you can write your shitty app in your breezy to use language.
I've no words to express how much I agree with this. Developers who ship bloated software that chugs painfully even on high end computers, with the defense that "the developers time is more valuable than the CPU's", the developers who prefer to use brutally slower, but easier to use tools, they need to be reminded that this is their job. Your objective shouldn't be to make your own job easier. It should be to deliver the best product you can, and the best experience to the users. Not make them suffer long loading times, slow applications, unresponsiveness, and massive size bloat so you can write your shitty app in your breezy to use language.
/rant