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		moshmosh on May 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I wish someone told me about getting a prom... About the only times I've seen backend work get any kind of positive reaction in a meeting or presentation, like UI does constantly, is when a bad DB query has been fixed so it drops from 20s to 20ms, or something like that.

ryall on May 13, 2021 [–]

Premature Optimisation is terrible for your career path. In this case premature means “before management notices” ;)

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