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Read this korrent: Optimization means measuring the gap between your code and what the hardware could theoretically do, not making changes and checking whether the statistics improved.
Optimization means measuring the gap between your code and what the hardware could theoretically do, not making changes and checking whether the statistics improved.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning. — tap to centre the map on it
An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.
Last stated 12 years ago
22 Dec 2014
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Jimmy Ba — holds since 2014-12-22 — tap for who they are
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Diederik P. Kingma — holds since 2014-12-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Is the page loaded?" was never a real question, and web performance only became measurable once it was broken into the distinct moments a user actually notices. — tap to centre the map on it
"Is the page loaded?" was never a real question, and web performance only became measurable once it was broken into the distinct moments a user actually notices.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
19 Aug 2026
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Addy Osmani — holds since 2026-08-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Optimize it later" would be safe advice only if every engineer already knew how to avoid the architectural mistakes that no later optimization can remove. — tap to centre the map on it
"Optimize it later" would be safe advice only if every engineer already knew how to avoid the architectural mistakes that no later optimization can remove.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A 300-millisecond response budget is not an achievement but an admission: 300 milliseconds is an eternity in computing, and a product pitching it shows how far the bar has fallen. — tap to centre the map on it
A 300-millisecond response budget is not an achievement but an admission: 300 milliseconds is an eternity in computing, and a product pitching it shows how far the bar has fallen.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Code and files generated by tools are pollution: hand-writing them is worth the effort because the bloat slows everything down for everyone. — tap to centre the map on it
Code and files generated by tools are pollution: hand-writing them is worth the effort because the bloat slows everything down for everyone.
Last stated 7 years ago
15 Oct 2019
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Derek Sivers — holds since 2019-10-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow. — tap to centre the map on it
Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.
Last stated 7 years ago
15 Oct 2019
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Derek Sivers — holds since 2019-10-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year. — tap to centre the map on it
A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year.
Last stated a month ago
27 Jul 2026
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Boris Cherny — holds since 2026-07-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: What clean-code polymorphism really costs you is not the virtual call but the optimizations the compiler can no longer perform once it cannot see what runs. — tap to centre the map on it
What clean-code polymorphism really costs you is not the virtual call but the optimizations the compiler can no longer perform once it cannot see what runs.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A compiler that also serves an IDE has to be lazy and deferred throughout — a different way of building compilers from the one the textbooks teach. — tap to centre the map on it
A compiler that also serves an IDE has to be lazy and deferred throughout — a different way of building compilers from the one the textbooks teach.
Last stated 4 months ago
13 May 2026
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Anders Hejlsberg — holds since 2026-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A compiler that names every place a change breaks turns refactoring into fixing errors until the compiler stops shouting. — tap to centre the map on it
A compiler that names every place a change breaks turns refactoring into fixing errors until the compiler stops shouting.
Last stated 4 months ago
20 May 2026
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Alice Ryhl — holds since 2026-05-20 — tap for who they are
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