The slider is very bad UX : I missed it too at first. It is not pronounced enough, partly because it is all the way to the right. A former boss would say : make it red .
How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased from 1990–2020
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#14The slider is very bad UX : I missed it too at first. It is not pronounced enough, partly because it is all the way to the right. A former boss would say : make it red .
It's really hard to notice the grey slider when the content are already red, green, blue, and black.
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#15Today I learned that I don't know any of these numbers that "every" programmer should know. Where do I turn in my programmer card, Jeff Dean?
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#171) The 'ns' next to the box is a graph legend not a data label (normally that would be in a box labeled legend to distinguish it from graph data)
2) The weird box and rectangle thing on the top is a slider, I didn't notice that until I was looking at the code and said "what slider?"
3) The only changes from 2005 to present are storage and networking speeds.
What item #3 tells you is that any performance gains in the last decade and a half you've experienced have been driven by multi-core, not faster processors. And that means Amdahl's Law is more important than Moore's Law these days.
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#18Today I learned that I don't know any of these numbers that "every" programmer should know. Where do I turn in my programmer card, Jeff Dean?
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain to developers why their network attaches storage has higher latency than their locally attached NVME SSD