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> I think the whole art of dealing with limited resources are lost on new programmers who have gigabytes of rams and gigacycles of compute. Chuck, people have
by AceJohnny2 9y ago
> I think the whole art of dealing with limited resources are lost on new programmers who have gigabytes of rams and gigacycles of compute.
Chuck, people have been saying that since punch-card days.
And here I am, cutting out strings from my program to make it fit under the 1MB barrier for my bootloader-to-SRAM to be happy :)
- ChuckMcM 9y agoNo doubt true. I still think it makes programming more interesting if it is constrained.
- specialist 9y agoConstraints make a lot of creative endeavors interesting. I have no idea why Lego modeling is so compelling when you can just print miniatures, but for me looking at people's work is like crack.
- Retra 9y agoYou're just solving the wrong problems then. Try rendering the whole Earth at sub-cm resolution or something. There are so many things we can't do right now because we're too constrained...
- digi_owl 9y agoI think he is more railing against text editors made using JS and a chrome-less web browser...
- jacobolus 9y agoYou just need to solve more computationally intensive problems. There are plenty of simulations and mathematical graphics you can make which take hours of rendering time on a fast modern machine, where optimizing the inner loops can have a big impact.