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Real Examples of Premature Optimization

sancho_panza — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:27:14 +0000

In Thiel's Zero to One he writes, "A good startup should have the potential for great scale built into its first design". This is counterintuitive to the premature optimization problem, what's commonly understood as bad since it creates unnecessary work and complexity in software design.

What are some examples of premature optimization that negatively (or positively) effected the companies you worked at?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111414

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New comment by sancho_panza in "Go: What we got right, what we got wrong"

sancho_panza — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 22:20:13 +0000

I like that a lot of the comments are concerned with Go's failure to replace C++ as the de facto systems language yet Rob Pike doesn't mention anything about this in a retrospective article about what the language designers got wrong. He must be so embarrassed about it.

New comment by sancho_panza in "HackerNewsCommentShuffle"

sancho_panza — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:11:14 +0000

A Firefox browser extension to shake up the comment thread.

I sometimes think, what does the person showing up late, much like myself, think about this or that topic.

HackerNewsCommentShuffle

sancho_panza — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:11:13 +0000

Article URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hackernewscommentshuffle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37034695

Points: 1

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New comment by sancho_panza in "Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation"

sancho_panza — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 05:11:45 +0000

I often have to boot back into the live media because I forgot to install a tool like iwd while chrooted. This information is not included in the single page installation guide. Maybe it’s those scripts i’m unfamiliar with that would shorten the feedback loop.

New comment by sancho_panza in "Improving code review time"

sancho_panza — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:58:52 +0000

At first glance, I thought you said “comment” instead of “commit”. I laughed at the facetiousness

New comment by sancho_panza in "Bubbles"

sancho_panza — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:02:47 +0000

Not to mention kick ass tunes. I’m not sure if it’s a long standing collaboration, but Hospital Records use to curate the music

Crypto-Judaism

sancho_panza — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:21:27 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-Judaism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32040641

Points: 5

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New comment by sancho_panza in "AirPods don't “just work”"

sancho_panza — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:07:16 +0000

It's so nice being able to bt connect to my Apple watch for the lovely ambience of tick, tock, tick.

New comment by sancho_panza in "Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic"

sancho_panza — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 23:44:02 +0000

What’s to stop a terrorist from severing one of these cables and severely debilitating the global network? I’m sure redundancy would stop such issues but still.

New comment by sancho_panza in "Why punish a scientist for defending science?"

sancho_panza — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 23:42:54 +0000

Wasn’t the Scopes Trial a farce

New comment by sancho_panza in "Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?"

sancho_panza — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:47:24 +0000

This is a cheat code. Well done. Well done.

New comment by sancho_panza in "The Animal Is Tired"

sancho_panza — Fri, 14 May 2021 14:29:17 +0000

I read "He's passed away now" and associated it with Martin. Your full-stop almost made me lose my shit.

New comment by sancho_panza in "Gödel's Loophole"

sancho_panza — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 20:52:36 +0000

One postulation asserts it has to do with self-reference, which is fundamentally incomplete.

New comment by sancho_panza in "Ask HN: How do I find energy to work on hobbies after the work day ends?"

sancho_panza — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:04:18 +0000

I started waking up 2 hours before work for avocational activities, and that gradually became 4 hours before. I feel as sharp as a razor once I wake up. Granted, I have to be asleep by 10, but I don't stress about working on my side projects after 9 hours of work. I can fill that time with audio books, cooking and working out.