I concur. On 7/4/07, Renier Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > lol... sounds like a posting from thedailywtf.com.... > > > David Tinker wrote: > > Some time ago I read something similar that was for real. A dude wrote > > a utility to crack the password protection on spreadsheets for an > > early version of Excel (or maybe it was zip files, whatever). It was > > almost instant and his customers felt ripped off. So he put in a > > little busy comand line anamation and made it take several seconds :) > > > > On 7/4/07, Fritz Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> The return of BOFH for the new millenium ............ > >> > >> > >> On 04/07/07, Fritz Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >> > >>> The title says it all; I've been greatly amused today reading his > column > >>> > >> in the java performance tuning newsletter... but can it possibly be > real? It > >> reads like a combination of Dilbert and Adrian Mole's diary.. for > instance: > >> > >>> June 6. It's not a myth. Well not any more. Did you ever hear about > the > >>> > >> enterprise system which the developers put in pauses so that they could > take > >> them out later to make the system faster? Actually, the way I hear it > is > >> that they anticipated that as the system scaled up, the load would > increase > >> and slow the system down, so they put in configurable sleep statements > that > >> slowed the system when they first deployed. Then, when it started > getting > >> loaded, they wound down the sleeps. Apparently, they kept the system > running > >> at roughly the same performance even after it went to full company-wide > >> release. I always thought this was yet another urban myth. But now I've > >> implemented the myth. Yes, my code tweaks way exceeded my 50% target > >> speedup, so I added in sleep code. That way, next time I come to tune, > I can > >> either speedup the system real quick (and look so good), or take my > time and > >> doodle. Had to put the sleeps into the monitoring code so that no one > else > >> finds them, but that's good, one nice central place. > >> > >>> ..that's from one of his earlier entries. I guess I should be thankful > >>> > >> that this doesn't sound like anything I've encountered yet. > >> > >>> Does anyone else know anything more about this guy? > >>> > >>> Fritz > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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