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Discussion on: What's the most wasteful software?

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Dan Silcox

The Facebook app wastes a lot of my time, does that count? πŸ˜‚

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Hopsoft

Anything that encourages people to waste time certainly counts IMO. The difficult part is accurately measuring such waste against the good that these systems might provide. This balance (or lack thereof) should be considered with other things people are discussing here like Electron, Blockchain, etc...

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Dan Silcox

So true; even in a tooling context if it takes you 2 days to get some fancy tool working and you only ever use it once to save you 1/2 an hour of work it’s probably not worth it (albeit there is intrinsic value in learning the tooling etc).