> I don't care if a CPU is running at 80% consuming more electricity when I could work for a week and make it do the same job at idle. It's an inefficient use of my time. That same week's worth of effort could be spent delivering more value than the $10k server + $500/year operating cost. (I'm paid less than that, but I deliver more value to my company than my paycheck.) Also, risk. If it works now, it may not after I spend a week mucking with it.
That attitude is perfectly fine and reasonable until people start applying it to user-facing software. That's how you get software that wastes millions of user hours and immense amounts of energy just so some programmer could "deliver more value" and, sadly, that applies to an alarming proportion of modern software.
That attitude is perfectly fine and reasonable until people start applying it to user-facing software. That's how you get software that wastes millions of user hours and immense amounts of energy just so some programmer could "deliver more value" and, sadly, that applies to an alarming proportion of modern software.