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Found this gem in the linked article: Windows Vista demands enough real estate on your hard drive that you could easily fit 30,000 full-length novels into it.
by couchand 12y ago
Found this gem in the linked article: Windows Vista demands enough real estate on your hard drive that you could easily fit 30,000 full-length novels into it.
A nitpick: a day of work, say six hours, is only 3600 minutes. If you can optimize some task to save a few minutes per user, it only takes a few thousand users to be worth it.
However, I think the worst optimizations to leave on the table are in an area many developer-types won't think about: usability. We can save much more of a user's time by creating simple, intuitive interfaces than we can checking cache misses (in most modern development).
- claudius 12y ago> We can save much more of a user's time by creating simple, intuitive interfaces than we can checking cache misses (in most modern development). And at least for regularly-used software, you can save even more user time by not optimising for the first five minutes of usage but for the long-term usage. Keyboard shortcuts are a good example for this: They are mostly not simple and certainly not intuitive per se (why does Alt+Tab switch windows in particular?), yet once you know them, they do save a lot of time.
- Dewie 12y ago> Windows Vista demands enough real estate on your hard drive that you could easily fit 30,000 full-length novels into it. That's an apples to oranges comparison if I ever saw one. It says nothing about whether Vista is bloated for the features it provides, by itself.
- sampo 12y agosix hours, is only 3600 minutes You mean 360.