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A colleague has been tasked with writing a remote image viewer. It’s slower than before (running on the same machine) “because it’s client-server”. Naturally,
by misnome 4y ago
A colleague has been tasked with writing a remote image viewer. It’s slower than before (running on the same machine) “because it’s client-server”.
Naturally, the 16 Megapixel images are sent as an array of json floats…
- secondcoming 4y agoUnless it's still at a proof-of-concept stage, that person is out of their depth.
- misnome 4y agoYes, yes they are. Unfortunately this is dysfunctional academia, so as long as the people paying the bills (who know nothing about building software) like them, they remain at this depth. Extra fun fact: Two years into the project, they hadn't heard of REST. Then rejected it, because, I quote, "The S means stateless and [they] need the server to store state"