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gigatexal on Jan 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: ECC matters

I mean early on sure at a startup where you’re not printing money I can see how saving on hardware makes sense. But surely you don’t need an MBA to know that hardware will continue to get cheaper whereas developers and their time will only get more expensive: better to let the hardware deal with it than to burden developers with it ... I’d have made the case for ECC but hindsight being what it is ...

colejohnson66 on Jan 3, 2021 [–]

But if you can save $1M+ now, then throw the cost of fixing it onto the person who replaces you, why do you care? You already got your bonus and jumped ship.

gigatexal on Jan 3, 2021 | [–]

Such a short sighted incentivisation structure harms the business in the long run I think.

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