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Half of Hackernews is discussion about six figure tech salaries, the other half is complaints about 300mb (aka ~$2) ram being to expensive for an app. https://

Half of Hackernews is discussion about six figure tech salaries, the other half is complaints about 300mb (aka ~$2) ram being to expensive for an app. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9864/price-of-ddr4-memory-drops-nearly-40-in-six-months-and-will-keep-declining https://www.anandtech.com/show/9864/price-of-ddr4-memory-dro...

gruez 8y ago
and what about people who use electron apps that aren't silicon valley programmers?
- saagarjha 8y ago
  They can't properly voice their complaints because they don't know why their software is terrible; just that it is terrible.
Barraketh 8y ago
Yup, but we're all running these apps on laptops, which have a fixed amount of RAM that is sometimes impossible to increase (looking at you, Apple)
allenz 8y ago
To be fair, RAM is much more expensive to upgrade on MacBooks and other premium laptops.
majewsky 8y ago
There are, in fact, people who are not SV software developers.
dracodoc 8y ago
What if all your RAM slots are taken, or your laptop cannot upgrade RAM at all?
reiichiroh 8y ago
This is from 2015. RAM prices remain artificially high.
spookthesunset 8y ago
> Half of Hackernews is discussion about six figure tech salaries, the other half is complaints about 300mb (aka ~$2) ram being to expensive for an app. Slashdot got like this eventually. Slashdot was tech site full of luddites complaining about anything new. Worse, slashdot stopped becoming relevant. When the top comment on an article about increased hard drive space was "why does all this stuff take so much space? bloat!! lazy developers!!!".... it's pretty lame. 300mb of ram is nothing. Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it and it will be no big deal. People need to stop micromanaging their computer and go do more productive things with their time....
- Avamander 8y ago
  > People need to stop micromanaging their computer You're so wrong. This hogging literally causes micromanagement. I have to start closing browser tabs and maybe at some point my IDE or a few open files so that just Slack or Discord or some other piece of horrendously bloated software could hog up another half a gigabyte of RAM. When Eight gigabytes stop being enough because of some chat applications it's not okay. Calling people that think software can actually use resources meaningfully "luddites" is counterproductive and damaging to the entire PC ecosystem, RAM and disk space are limited resources on most PCs and people do not want and should not have to spend more just to run a few chat applications.
- Mithaldu 8y ago
  > Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it Wrong, since Electron apps NEVER sit still.

gruez 8y ago

and what about people who use electron apps that aren't silicon valley programmers?

saagarjha 8y ago
They can't properly voice their complaints because they don't know why their software is terrible; just that it is terrible.

Barraketh 8y ago

Yup, but we're all running these apps on laptops, which have a fixed amount of RAM that is sometimes impossible to increase (looking at you, Apple)

allenz 8y ago

To be fair, RAM is much more expensive to upgrade on MacBooks and other premium laptops.

majewsky 8y ago

There are, in fact, people who are not SV software developers.

dracodoc 8y ago

What if all your RAM slots are taken, or your laptop cannot upgrade RAM at all?

reiichiroh 8y ago

This is from 2015. RAM prices remain artificially high.

spookthesunset 8y ago

> Half of Hackernews is discussion about six figure tech salaries, the other half is complaints about 300mb (aka ~$2) ram being to expensive for an app. Slashdot got like this eventually. Slashdot was tech site full of luddites complaining about anything new. Worse, slashdot stopped becoming relevant. When the top comment on an article about increased hard drive space was "why does all this stuff take so much space? bloat!! lazy developers!!!".... it's pretty lame. 300mb of ram is nothing. Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it and it will be no big deal. People need to stop micromanaging their computer and go do more productive things with their time....

Avamander 8y ago
> People need to stop micromanaging their computer You're so wrong. This hogging literally causes micromanagement. I have to start closing browser tabs and maybe at some point my IDE or a few open files so that just Slack or Discord or some other piece of horrendously bloated software could hog up another half a gigabyte of RAM. When Eight gigabytes stop being enough because of some chat applications it's not okay. Calling people that think software can actually use resources meaningfully "luddites" is counterproductive and damaging to the entire PC ecosystem, RAM and disk space are limited resources on most PCs and people do not want and should not have to spend more just to run a few chat applications.
Mithaldu 8y ago
> Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it Wrong, since Electron apps NEVER sit still.