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20 years since this manifesto lamenting the previous 20 years its pretty clear this ship has no captain In terms of resource consumption machine capacity has g
by college_physics 4y ago
20 years since this manifesto lamenting the previous 20 years its pretty clear this ship has no captain
In terms of resource consumption machine capacity has grown exponentially, but who can claim the same for user utility?
This is by now a problem so pervasive that even economists puzzle over (the missing information technology productivity gain)
But this text is part of the problem really, as it is too simplistic and doesnt feel like it identifies fundamental recipes for building better software
- lvxferre 4y agoThis is just a guess but I think that there are two problems here, not one: 1) inefficiency strictu sensu (more operations required for the exact same task), and 2) lower diminishing returns (that kitchen sink being included weights far more than the rest of the project, but maybe you should still not remove it because it still provides a small return of user utility).