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The bit about global warming - come on. Reminds me of HBO's Silicon Valley. "And we're making the world a better place, through standardized binary encoded we
by nchudleigh 11y ago
The bit about global warming - come on. Reminds me of HBO's Silicon Valley. "And we're making the world a better place, through standardized binary encoded web protocols"
- humbleMouse 11y agoYeah the global warming claim is ridiculous.
- quonn 11y agoEspecially since most request will originate from a Desktop or mobile client. For each requests, the client will surely display the result for a few seconds or even minutes, using way more energy than parsing those text protocols. Therefore, switching to a binary protocol can't make a big difference, not even for the comparatively small part of human energy consumption that's used for computing devices.
- rrss1122 11y agoSeriously! I rolled my eyes at that one. The author even acknowledges he won't prove what he just said, it's just a gut feeling that using text protocols over binary protocols wastes enough energy to be noticeable.