Well, since technology grows non-linearly, so does our perception of resource usage. A megabyte is effectively meaningless when we talk about gigabytes of RAM o

Well, since technology grows non-linearly, so does our perception of resource usage. A megabyte is effectively meaningless when we talk about gigabytes of RAM or terabytes of hard disk space. Many websites nowadays require a megabyte download or more. I don't think it's odd that people treat 8MB as effectively "free", and I think it's a good thing because it allows us to liberally experiment with interesting new technologies (like Go) instead of hacking together obscure Unix commands like we used to.