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Ui devs should be forced to use pentium 3s for all work and testing.

• frodowtf 4y ago
  What's up with the general hate against frontend developers? They literally make your rocketscience backend stuff accessible to users.
  • Espressosaurus 4y ago
    Because Teams (and Slack) are glorified IRC for the text portions and yet we have experiences like Teams[1]. You're seeing pent-up frustration about poor performance that we all deal with every single day, on most applications and almost all websites other than those that keep things simple (like HN). [1] https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1640827575437250561 https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1640827575437250561
    • frodowtf 4y ago
      I have never used IRC. How would you do video calls with that?
• TT-392 4y ago
  I mean, honestly, I think all devs should. Except maybe the people who work on such cutting edge stuff that they already need every bit of optimization they can get, even on their $2k+ pc.
  • TT-392 4y ago
    Though, maybe not that specific processor. Maybe more like a severely underclocked 8 core, or some really old 4 core. Having only a one core to develop with is gonna seriously hinder the development of multicore optimizations.
• machiaweliczny 4y ago
  Chrome has both CPU and Network throttling. I use both when developing (if you pay me enough for quality).
• jesse__ 4y ago
  I can't remember which studio (maybe naughty dog), but I remember a story from the 90s of a studio who forced their developers to work on minimum spec workstations during development, with the theory that it would ferret out costly performance problems early. I keep a couple old laptops kicking around for perf testing on and, can confirm, I routinely find perf hiccups that when added together would create a huge amount of debugging work. While I like doing dev with a threadripper & beefy GPU, I certainly support the idea of having crappy, old test machines around.