alt Hacker NewsRight - nobody who’s had a formal education in engineering would think that way, because cost considerations are part of the curriculum from the start.
Right - nobody who’s had a formal education in engineering would think that way, because cost considerations are part of the curriculum from the start.
I can't recall cost ever coming up as a consideration during my years of formal computer science studies in school. Big-O efficiency, sure, but the cost of compute, storage, bandwidth, nope, not once.
It was absolutely hammered into me in the years of working for startups that followed, though.