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> Given it's Jonathan Blow, I feel compelled to say yes. This is also how I felt watching the video, but on the other hand I have a really hard time finding se
by 0xCMP 6y ago
> Given it's Jonathan Blow, I feel compelled to say yes.
This is also how I felt watching the video, but on the other hand I have a really hard time finding serious faults with his point.
HN keeps things light. My personal website is super light. But the product I work on? What's a few MB gzipped down to less than a MB? 100ms? 300ms? Who can tell the difference[0].
[0]: I can, but certainly not the people who the feature matters to much of the time.
- hadsed 6y agoAnd even if you could, you're getting more value by getting that thing sooner. Or an even better argument: in the end, maybe it took just enough resources at the quality you got to even be born in the current market. Yeah most things are frivolous... you can survive without a better camera in your phone for another year. But that ham-fisted implicit cultural aspect is what also brings people medical devices 5-10 years sooner than it could have. We all know these gains compound over time. So maybe it's ok if our programs are a little slow. We buy the truly mission critical technology faster with that frivolity. But I'll also say, I still get mad at my phone and throw it pretty often. Just the way it is.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIt's not an either or. Cutting edge technology has always been a bit slow and rough around the edges. That's not an excuse for your chatroom client to use 450MB of RAM.