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I swear I can see the lag while typing into Slack and I feel like it is definitely getting worse the longer Slack has been running. What the hell is going on there? What are we doing wrong as a species to develop software like this?? Shit should be small, fast and simple.


Since we humans can, magically, make shit appear out of nothing by just writing gibberish and passing that gibberish to another program also written in gibberish, and get something that might be useful (probably not), I feel like we as a species are actually doing pretty well.

I agree overall though, most developers/managers of developers/companies who write software fucking suck at their job.


Agreed, Slack and Teams are particularly egregious examples.




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