[iclelland]

And if your problem requires only one of each, and needs them for the same amount of time, then your optimization would be the correct one.

Now scale this to a situation where solving the problem requires ten thousand machines for each developer working on code, and where each minute of time spent writing code translates into two days of machine time running that code, and the numbers start to look different.

[friendly_chap]

When I will solve problems which require 10k machines/dev, I will get paid so much that I will be happy to write in brainfuck or lolcode.

Meanwhile I just want to deliver the features for my product owner as quickly as possible! So we can both go home to our families in time and still deliver tons of business value.