{"id":1158,"date":"2009-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/01\/05\/1096\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T23:00:00","slug":"1096","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/01\/05\/1096\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/001198.html\">Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Incidentally, this is also why failing to outfit your (relatively) highly paid programmers with decent equipment as per the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000666.html\">Programmer&#8217;s Bill of Rights<\/a> is such a colossal mistake. If a one-time investment of $4,000 on each programmer makes them merely 5% more productive, you&#8217;ll break even after the first year.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Always try to spend your way out of a performance problem first by throwing faster hardware at it. It&#8217;ll often be a quicker and cheaper way to resolve immediate performance issues than attempting to code your way out of it. Longer term, of course, you&#8217;ll do both.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood \u2013 Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive: &#8222;Incidentally, this is also why failing to outfit your (relatively) highly paid programmers with decent equipment as per the Programmer&#8217;s Bill of Rights is such a colossal mistake. If a one-time investment of $4,000 on each programmer makes them merely 5% more productive, you&#8217;ll break even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}