Computational Thinking: The Subtle Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the UX of VCS https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/42942.pdf Interesting and sobering.
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As a developer, you develop an intuition for the computational cost of doing things. It's possible to become computationally stingy: "a real time text editor (i.e. updates as soon as you type) is a huge waste of resources!"
I wish I had a good name for this phenomenon.