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I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old. The standard ram for midrange laptops now is what, 8gb? At s

by jf- 8y ago

I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old. The standard ram for midrange laptops now is what, 8gb? At some point you just have to upgrade.

epidemian 8y ago
> I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old. Why not? If the hardware still works fine, unless we're doing something intrinsically more complex, i don't see a reason why it shouldn't work :S
- jf- 8y ago
  Because it holds back innovations, which is what we’re talking about.
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - diminoten 8y ago
    You can tell when the average viewer of this site learned to program by how irrationally clingy they are to things like the concept of memory management. It used to matter a lot more, when those people were learning, so now it has to still matter!!!111oneoneeleven
    - goldfeld 8y ago
      I'm sure those people are laughing at new grad's chugging Atom/VS Codes while they vim away in cultivated peace.
  - Tom4hawk 8y ago
    It's one thing when more resources allows you to do something that was not possible without them and entirely different thing when you need to throw gigabytes and gigahertz at programs offering less (because minimalism!!!1111!1). What innovations Electron brings to the table? That web devs can now not only bloat websites but also desktop apps? More resources should mean that I can do things that were not possible before, or that I can do more things at the same time and not that I can do less because someone is to lazy to learn something new.
goldfeld 8y ago
Wow, this grandiose "modern software" must be making people's morning coffee and eating their lunch to boot then!
- jf- 8y ago
  One day I'm sure we'll all have our own robot butlers, but right now it's mainly just allowing software to be made faster and cheaper.
bunnycorn 8y ago
Laptops cheaper than $500 come with 8GB of RAM.
- Tom4hawk 8y ago
  So what? If apps use more ram/cpu it means that I can use less of them.
  - bunnycorn 8y ago
    Then we should stick to Apps like those of the Commodore 64 days, and have thousands of them all open at the same time?

by jf- 8y ago

epidemian 8y ago

> I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old. Why not? If the hardware still works fine, unless we're doing something intrinsically more complex, i don't see a reason why it shouldn't work :S

jf- 8y ago
Because it holds back innovations, which is what we’re talking about.
- deleted 8y ago
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- diminoten 8y ago
  You can tell when the average viewer of this site learned to program by how irrationally clingy they are to things like the concept of memory management. It used to matter a lot more, when those people were learning, so now it has to still matter!!!111oneoneeleven
  - goldfeld 8y ago
    I'm sure those people are laughing at new grad's chugging Atom/VS Codes while they vim away in cultivated peace.
- Tom4hawk 8y ago
  It's one thing when more resources allows you to do something that was not possible without them and entirely different thing when you need to throw gigabytes and gigahertz at programs offering less (because minimalism!!!1111!1). What innovations Electron brings to the table? That web devs can now not only bloat websites but also desktop apps? More resources should mean that I can do things that were not possible before, or that I can do more things at the same time and not that I can do less because someone is to lazy to learn something new.

goldfeld 8y ago

Wow, this grandiose "modern software" must be making people's morning coffee and eating their lunch to boot then!

jf- 8y ago
One day I'm sure we'll all have our own robot butlers, but right now it's mainly just allowing software to be made faster and cheaper.

bunnycorn 8y ago

Laptops cheaper than $500 come with 8GB of RAM.

Tom4hawk 8y ago
So what? If apps use more ram/cpu it means that I can use less of them.
- bunnycorn 8y ago
  Then we should stick to Apps like those of the Commodore 64 days, and have thousands of them all open at the same time?