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Whatever happened to "hardware is cheap, programmers are expensive"? https://blog.codinghorror.com/hardware-is-cheap-programmers-are-expensive/ https://blog.cod

• falcolas 10y ago
  It doesn't get as many views as a rant about how entitled we are.
• Avshalom 10y ago
  Depending on how you consider that phrase: A) victim of it's own success. Computing hardware is cheap, 10k desks + masseuses + on site food service + all the other perks that are constantly individually compared against "well it's only % of your programmers salary" all started adding up B) phones made people remember that the user's hardware matters more than the developers build farm.
  • falcolas 10y ago
    > the user's hardware matters more than the developers build farm The user doesn't have to recompile their code every few minutes to do testing (or every few seconds for intellisense and other coding aids). Developer hardware still matters. I can be productive without a masseuse. I can't be productive when it takes five minutes to run unit tests because my laptop sucks.