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" If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things." I
by comatose_kid 14y ago
" If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things."
Instead of taking us on a long biographical journey of how you found the One True Editor (this week), why not familiarize yourself with Amdahl's Law?
- montecarl 14y agoI'll bite. What do text editing and thinking (both serial tasks) have to do with Amdahl's law?
- comatose_kid 14y agoAmdahl's Law isn't necessarily applied to parallelism.
- stevelosh 14y agoWhere can I get clones of myself willing to concurrently enter text so that Amdahl's law about parallelization performance somehow becomes even the slightest bit relevant to text editing?
- comatose_kid 14y agoOkay, fine - law of diminishing returns, the point still stands (although I deserved that for being a smart-ass).