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Comment by kzrdude | Hacker News Reader

When does the speed of yes matter?

There's a whole best-selling book about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_Yes

Well played. :) Interestingly, if I listed their negotiation principles here in a blind test, you might think they were about software development:

    - separate the people from the problem
    - focus on interests, not positions
    - invent options for mutual gain
    - insist on using objective criteria

I'd hire that engineer!

I've misused it as a load generator before: yes '{"some":"json"}' | kafkacat -P -t bleh (Though in my case, ~100 MB/s were enough.)

It doesn't, 99.9999% of the time. But there's probably someone, somewhere, who uses it in some crazy huge obscure script, who appreciates the work people put into optimizing it.

There is a program in the real world that consumes a line of input and processes it, faster than a naive yes can emit it?

ding ding ding

But then again, maybe the purpose is to swamp the input, maybe for testing, so the more the better, so, you never know and it's wrong to decide what all users don't need.

yes | not

When you’re really impatient with prompts.

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