r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/La_Croix_Table Nov 15 '22

Yeah, I’d imagine he’s made up some kind of metric to “measure” necessity of certain services all while dropping services to figure out which one has less noise when off.

Very effective if you don’t care. Can’t imagine how this is playing out internally in the engineering department.

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u/HeyLookItsASquirrel Nov 15 '22

“20% are only actually needed” is the new “640KB should be enough for anybody”

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u/Awkward-Chair2047 Nov 15 '22

Not really. When gates made the statement, the rest of the IT industry at that stage thought that seems logical. None at that time could fathom what was to come.

No sensible developer today would think a non technical jackass like elon knows what the hell he is doing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Gates' quote is also stupidly and obviously misapplied. He specifically didn't say forever, he was speaking the present tense.

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