Have been reflecting on what it is that I "do" during the holidays. It seems highly likely that I've been so focused for so long on how slow most sites are that making websites faster is probably my only actual engineering skill circa 2018.
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Pretty sure most of C++ has fallen out of my brain. Everything I used to know about disassembling Win32/64 has likewise left the building. I am now a "make it faster" machine only because it's the single most persistent problem in the apps I see.
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It's strange to acknowledge that the problem has affected me so deeply.
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personally think its healthier and better for your career to care deeply about the problems instead of adoring the ever-changing solutions
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i've seen people go too far in that direction though, to the extent that they actually try to preserve the problem for which they have invested in solving.
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This is why I try to bring it back to users. Problems aren't important, users are.
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