> Was this worth it? Worth inventing completely new forms of software, worth injecting code into the fucking thermal management layer that overrides parts of the Windows boot sequence and risks corrupting main RAM and rendering the machine unusable, all for a fucking 15 second speedup?
It also feels like the case of some higher up VP-of-whatever not realizing how atrocious the implementation would be, and just ordered it to be done. Nobody below them in the development or engineering teams dared to chime in and protest. Those who protested probably found themselves without a job, or replaced by some overseas contractors who never object to anything (and are usually cheaper per line of code written too, a win-win, surely!).
It also feels like the case of some higher up VP-of-whatever not realizing how atrocious the implementation would be, and just ordered it to be done. Nobody below them in the development or engineering teams dared to chime in and protest. Those who protested probably found themselves without a job, or replaced by some overseas contractors who never object to anything (and are usually cheaper per line of code written too, a win-win, surely!).