Margin Call (5/9) Movie CLIP - A Bridge (2011) HD
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites the scene when discussing small efficiency gains multiplied across many users, such as faster boot or load times.
What it is
A Margin Call clip in which Will Emerson tries to persuade Eric Dale to return to the firm, and Dale recounts calculating the lifetimes saved by a bridge he helped build.
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What Hacker News said
Cites vlasev · 2021-03 · on “Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming”
Reminds me of the bridge story in Margin Call [1]. Or if you'd rather read it, here's the script [2], just search for "Did you know I built a bridge once?". Or condensed: "It went from Dilles Bottom, Ohio to Moundsville, West Virginia. It spanned nine hundred and 12 feet above the Ohio River. 12,000 people used this thing a day. And it cut out 35 miles of driving each way between Wheeling and New Martinsville. That's a combined 847,000 miles of driving a day. Or 25,410,000 miles a month. And 304,920,000 miles a year. Saved. Now I completed that project in 1986, that's twenty-two years ago. So over the life of that one bridge, that's 6,708,240,000 miles that haven't had to be driven. At, what
Cites zerocrates · 2023-04 · on “Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%”
There's a similar calculation (in a slightly different context) in a good scene in the movie Margin Call , about all the miles and hours saved by one bridge: [this video]
Cites leksak · 2023-05 · on “Ask HN: Can you relate to the following issues? How did you deal with it?”
1. Mental exhaustion and burnout Depending on how deep it gets the way to dealing with it changes. I recall when I started my current job that initially I had to do tasks vey similar to what I've had to do before and that made me very nervous initially as the last time I had to do these things I ended up completely bricking myself. This time, the complete exhaustion was so far in the rear-view mirror that I could do these things almost effortlessly. Even though they were so comparatively easy this time, I will acknowledge that I still felt some form of exhaustion nowadays. Perma-exhausted. However, it is not as dire as it once was. In the past, I needed extended sick-leave and even a sabbati
Cites cmancini · 2023-08 · on “Steve Jobs: Fast boot times saves lives”
Reminds me of this scene with Stanley Tucci talking about building a bridge in the movie Margin Call: [this video]
Critical xk_id · 2023-04 · on “Effective Spaced Repetition”
I'd say the answer is because they don't measure success in terms of who becomes competent in the language, but in how many users they have. typical neoliberal "number go up" mentality, rejecting ideological definitions of "genuine" value [this video]