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Most of the arguments mentioned in the article are just a bias [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospectio

Most of the arguments mentioned in the article are just a bias [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection] and personal preference. Remember when softwares are stored in floppy. It took a while to load. Then every application came with different behavior and key bindings.

cf 7y ago
No this has actually been measured by people. https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ The computers are faster, can do more stuff, and monitors have higher frame rates. But for many applications that aren't games latency and non-responsive UIs are a growing problem.
- hasperdi 7y ago
  That input lag is true, but that is not the argument the article is presenting. The article argues that keyboard is a better interaction hardware than mouse. Google Maps doesn't work exactly as he wanted. Popups everywhere, etc.
- aidenn0 7y ago
  I remember being able to type faster than the machine could keep up an an old Mac. (Maybe a Mac plus?). I couldn't type up handwritten notes reliably, because half a page in, I would fill up the buffer and characters would get dropped.
  - boring_twenties 7y ago
    If you want to relive that experience, just use voice.google.com.
    - nikanj 7y ago
      Or the desktop Outlook client.
- nottorp 7y ago
  <cough> Android Studio. I'm pretty sure code completion used to be way faster and less intrusive (pop up with suggestions comes up when you're finished typing the keyboard, decides to pick a random thing, erases your keyword).
  - nottorp 7y ago
    Ouch. "finished typing the keyword" not "keyboard". I don't think I could have typoed this, there must be a spell checker somewhere that I haven't disabled...
fyfy18 7y ago
Last night I downloaded an app update on my handheld computing device (a phone). It took around 30 seconds to download and install the 100mb update, on a internet connection I can use pretty much anywhere in Europe for £10/mo. 15 years ago I would have been waiting 20 minutes for a single song to download on a hard wired PC.

cf 7y ago

No this has actually been measured by people. https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ The computers are faster, can do more stuff, and monitors have higher frame rates. But for many applications that aren't games latency and non-responsive UIs are a growing problem.

hasperdi 7y ago
That input lag is true, but that is not the argument the article is presenting. The article argues that keyboard is a better interaction hardware than mouse. Google Maps doesn't work exactly as he wanted. Popups everywhere, etc.
aidenn0 7y ago
I remember being able to type faster than the machine could keep up an an old Mac. (Maybe a Mac plus?). I couldn't type up handwritten notes reliably, because half a page in, I would fill up the buffer and characters would get dropped.
- boring_twenties 7y ago
  If you want to relive that experience, just use voice.google.com.
  - nikanj 7y ago
    Or the desktop Outlook client.
nottorp 7y ago
<cough> Android Studio. I'm pretty sure code completion used to be way faster and less intrusive (pop up with suggestions comes up when you're finished typing the keyboard, decides to pick a random thing, erases your keyword).
- nottorp 7y ago
  Ouch. "finished typing the keyword" not "keyboard". I don't think I could have typoed this, there must be a spell checker somewhere that I haven't disabled...

fyfy18 7y ago

Last night I downloaded an app update on my handheld computing device (a phone). It took around 30 seconds to download and install the 100mb update, on a internet connection I can use pretty much anywhere in Europe for £10/mo. 15 years ago I would have been waiting 20 minutes for a single song to download on a hard wired PC.