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"If you want to write yesterday's software, use a laptop" - me / paraphrase of Alan Kay I think? I get why people are still blacksmiths making door handles and
by aconz2 10y ago
"If you want to write yesterday's software, use a laptop" - me / paraphrase of Alan Kay I think?
I get why people are still blacksmiths making door handles and I think that's great. But I'd rather be in a giant machine shop making aircraft carriers.
- brianwawok 10y agoI have no idea where this analogy is going. I'd rather be on a mountain making sleds?
- Chos89 10y agoDon't be a douche, it was a good analogy.
- untog 10y agoOf course it wasn't. People on laptops and people on desktops are making the same thing, just desktop users are doing so with more horsepower.
- aconz2 10y agoSure we're all making software which is just bits in memory, but I think that's an extreme simplification. Maybe you're thinking of how we're all just editing text to make programs? But then that doesn't account for what you do with the program you just wrote. I think you're thinking of using more horsepower for strong scaling, which is a good use, but I'm more referring to weak scaling. You can work on bigger problems with more horsepower, not just solve the smaller ones faster.
- vacri 10y agoAnd then when you try to deploy that carrier, find out that it's too big for the slipway?