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Comment by ungreased0675

10 hours ago

Empathy and respect for users is what product managers should be doing.

Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.

> Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.

You're being generous with what I would consider negligence.

They don't know what a megabyte is

  • The consequences of MBs of JavaScript can be perceived by anyone in terms of performance and mobile data consumption.

  • +1.

    I have been asked by someone in late 40s why uploading a video takes a lot longer than uploading a photo.

    They are not dumb people. They just do not know.

    The onus is on the engineers to design for them.

    • "Does it take longer to upload 10,000 photos than to upload 1 photo?"

      If a 40-year-old can not answer that question, then they are in fact - dumb.

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You're not a good and modern engineer who knows his craft if you aren't defaulting to react and tailwind.

And don't dare to contradict me, the fact that MIT-bred leetcode ninjas paid half a million per year can't produce a simple (mostly static) website on that stack it's only because of management that wants to ship the next product. /s