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I'm all SSD now. I've been telling my friends "This is as big as the floppy disk, get one". Corsair SSD are like $250. And don't tell me you need 1.5TB in your
by keyle 16y ago
I'm all SSD now. I've been telling my friends "This is as big as the floppy disk, get one".
Corsair SSD are like $250. And don't tell me you need 1.5TB in your desktop! You'd be a lot smarter to have 180gig hdd and all externals.
When I jump on someone's machine who has spinning disks and do a build in visual studio, I feel like time stopped. I keep moving the mouse "is it frozen? What's wrong?"
- chrisjsmith 16y agoThat's a problem with Visual studio. It doesn't do incremental builds. You basically have to create an entire assembly from scratch every time you build.
- masklinn 16y agoKinda missed the point, replace "do a build" with "do a full build" and you get the same thing, I used to have the exact same issue when installing lxml via easy_install/pip in a virtualenv (which entails a full compile from a source tarball) on an MBP with a factory drive (5400rpm), I could just go and grab myself a coffee because it would pretty much slow the machine to a grinding halt. Nowadays, I don't even notice I'm doing it (replaced factory drive with an x25M g2.