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I once heard someone say (paraphrased), "To some programmers RAM is like that couch in your grandmother's living room, with a plastic cover, that nobody's ever
by brundolf 6y ago
I once heard someone say (paraphrased), "To some programmers RAM is like that couch in your grandmother's living room, with a plastic cover, that nobody's ever actually allowed to sit on."
- einr 6y agoI think it is prudent not to sit on other people's couches uninvited. Now what programmers do to their own couches or RAM I couldn't care less about, but generally they write software for other people and their RAM.
- wruza 6y agoProgrammers get paid (in money or respect) by other people like you who are free to use or to not use their software. Idk which percentage of modern stacks is free to us, and how much it would cost if "they" did it the "right" way. Blaming them for using your RAM to do the job is like blaming potato for using your enzymes to dissolve into nutrients.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoReplace "RAM" with "electricity" and it becomes obvious why that quip is wrongheaded, at least for those of us who pay our own electric bill. "Developers" like that who don't care about externalities because they're not footing the bill waste millions of dollars worth of RAM, millions of dollars worth of electricity, etc. globally.
- p1necone 6y agoRAM is not the same kind of resource as electricity. An application that uses twice as much RAM is not twice as expensive to run.
- exmadscientist 6y agoYou're right, it can easily be four times as expensive. Or even impossible.
- arp242 6y agoThis isn't about RAM usage. It's about feature sets in libraries, APIs, applications, etc.