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You missed the part where he qualifies almost every statement about getting rid of the local disk with, "except for caching". This implies that he's not talking
by oconnore 14y ago
You missed the part where he qualifies almost every statement about getting rid of the local disk with, "except for caching". This implies that he's not talking about a dumb terminal.
If your device has frequent (not necessarily constant) internet access this is essentially the same thing as having many regular computers, since your cache can allow you to work offline just like normal. Like git, you would just work on the local "cache", and then sync with other devices when you need to switch or regain internet access.
- andrewflnr 14y agoI didn't understand his use of the word caching to mean the same thing as a local git repository, but rather a simple latency optimization; SVN has a "cache" too. He also states that most if not all real computation takes place off the device, in the server. If that's not the definition of a dumb terminal, what is? If I misunderstood him, well, good, I'm glad we're not so far apart. But I don't think so.
- thisrod 14y agoRemember who Dr Pike works for: "real computation" means updating the Page rank of the World Wide Web, adding up America's phone bills, and other things from the don't-try-this-at-home category.
- andrewflnr 14y agoTrue. I guess from that perspective, anything that's not a major cluster looks like a dumb terminal.