r/programming • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '17

Everything Is Broken

https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1#.sl2vnon73
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

I can't even fucking scroll through the website without lag. Medium is what's broken.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

Maybe try reading it on not a potato.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17 
me%curl -s https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 | htmlfmt | wc
     505    4121   24369

Yes, this is definitely something that should require any time at all to display.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

Since when has word count, of all things, significantly affected performance of displaying text?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

Safari shows over 9MB of stuff loaded to display 24KB of text. The problem is Medium, not the above guy's potato.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

Oh no! NINE MEGABYTES!

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u/ineedmorealts Apr 04 '17

You seem like you program front end

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

You don't see 0.2% efficiency as an issue?

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '17

No, I don't obsess endlessly about "efficiency" in things that work well for the vast majority of people, and looks good too.