On: Misunderstanding the Knuth premature optimization quote

[bitboxer]

Lol. Service Unavailable...Knuth really was wrong. This server should be premature optimized for hacker news :D .

[loewenskind → bitboxer]

If you're having a problem with the performance then by definition fixing it isn't premature.

[kiiski → loewenskind]

I think he meant that it should have been prematurely optimized so that it could have handled the traffic from hn and there would never have been any problems with performance.