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The pendulum swings again. Remember mainframes? Remember PCs? Remember thin clients? Rememeber PCs again? Remember this i a couple of years as the pendulum sta
by bregma 6y ago
The pendulum swings again.
Remember mainframes? Remember PCs? Remember thin clients? Rememeber PCs again? Remember this i a couple of years as the pendulum starts to swing back.
- koonsolo 6y agoI love it how the pendulum always goes way to far to one side, to end up with enough force to go overboard on the other side again. I guess it's the most natural way to find balance. Same story for testing. I think we are at the end of "move fast and break things".
- quicklime 6y agoIt’s not a pendulum, the industry is always moving towards two goals: miniaturization (for portability) and centralization (for efficiency). Sometimes it appears to go “backwards” towards decentralization when there’s a shift in form factor. This is just to avoid getting stuck at a local optimum. Eventually we’ll get to the global optimum where everything’s centralized but available from everywhere.