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		athenot 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load... It's also a Product issue: "fast and snappy" is almost never on their list of priorities. So product managers will push devs for more features, which satisfy the roadmap, and only get concerned about speed when it reaches painful levels.

jMyles 11 months ago [–]

> only get concerned about speed when it reaches painful levels.

...and by then, the requests for performance are somewhere between onerous and ridiculous.

I'm as wary of premature optimization as anyone, but I also have a healthy fear of future-proofed sluggishness.

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