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I think there are more to that: For one, “screens are changing too fast and I can’t keep up with it” is a common complaint from less tech-inclined people. Scre
by numpad0 4y ago
I think there are more to that:
For one, “screens are changing too fast and I can’t keep up with it” is a common complaint from less tech-inclined people. Screens transitioning from one state to another state, then staying frozen until user completes decision making process, may not be a universally ideal mode on interaction. For me it is but I’m likely not normal.
For another, I’ve just come across an anecdote yesterday that some developers encounter pressures from bad managers to use phones and tablets in place of a desktop OS, or resistance against engineering workstation upgrade plans, with “computers are always slow and that’s normal” as a rationale.
There must be elements that are normalizing slowness on computers, even preferences over fast computers and software. Blaming “bad” programming won’t work if there are incentives against improving it: bad incentives must be identified and removed first.
- bsenftner 4y agoOne job back. manager purposely got a SATA drives for my workstation, claiming they will force me to write faster code. What an idiot decision: 40+ minutes to boot the system, 5-10 minutes to load an IDE... Simply impossible to use. After a while I put in an SSD I got on my own and never told him.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoSounds like a good day to shut your computer down at the end of each shift and then spend the first 40 minutes of each day playing games on your phone [or reading this website].
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y ago++ I'd definitely make sure my manager was fully aware of how much time he was burning.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoSATA is orthogonal to SSD vs spinning rust. Also, over 40 minutes to boot sounds like there was more going on than slow disk.
- illiarian 4y agoHe heard the idea, but didn't understand the execution: what he needed to do instead is proritise testing the software on slow SATAs