![The chinese actually intentionally put sleeps in their code so that the client will have to pay to optimize it. [640x814 - 56KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/LOf8vL.jpg){kind=link}
This is nothing new. I had a boss insist we add a timed progress bar to make an instantaneous page update look like it was actually doing something complicated... He even wanted me to add a set of fictitious processes it was supposed to update with as it plodded through its 4s+/-0.75s process...
"Reticulating splines..."
Just like what TurboTax does today... if people only knew.
It's why I despise modern software dev. Back when memory mattered you had to fully understand how the metal worked. Milliseconds and bytes mattered.
Imagine modern software capabilities if the copy/paste cowboys actually understood what they plagiarised off stackoverflow...
I read a lot of Hacker News, and people are always complaining about the cut-and-past StackOverflow code that ends up in different software, bugs and all. It seems this is a favorite thing to do with Indian and Paki programmers.
Like when you first tried to look up someone’s info and land on one of those background check websites that have this ridiculous progress bar and messages fresh out of a cheesy CSI show.
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