[HN Gopher] Ignore the Kingman at your own peril
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Ignore the Kingman at your own peril
Author : mrsnuggles
Score : 14 points
Date : 2021-06-22 14:49 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| jay_kyburz wrote:
| This is super dumb and has nothing to do with why marketing needs
| to make their own campaign pages or why a one day feature might
| take 3 months.
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| The first is because the engineers want to do things "properly"
| and are worried about things blowing up if you don't. The
| Marketing team doesn't care, they just want it done quick and
| dirty.
|
| The other is because sometimes new features are hard to estimate.
|
| Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a strong proponent of only working
| in few solid blocks of uninterpreted time through the day. I only
| "work" 4-6 hours a day at most, but that is flow and
| concentration, not congestion of resources as a result of
| overutilization.
| User23 wrote:
| Looks very similar to Little's Law[1] which is another broadly
| useful queuing theory result.
|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little's_law
| dvdkon wrote:
| Off-topic to most of the points the article is making, but I'm
| happy to finally have some mathematical basis to my observation
| that saturating IO on a Linux system slows it down exponentially
| (or at least very non-linearly).
| janci wrote:
| This makes me want o throw the computer out of the window.
| Copying a large file between two partitions on the same SSD
| makes the computer absolutely unusable - mouse freezing, sound
| freezing
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