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Gordan Bobic
gordan at bobich.net
Fri Feb 22 20:17:11 UTC 2013
On 22/02/2013 20:08, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 22.02.2013 21:01, schrieb Joe Zeff:
>> On 02/22/2013 11:53 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> Ha! Punched cards! We would have thanked God for
>>> punched cards! The Data General Nova in the engineering
>>> lab at FAU only had an ASR-33 tty with a paper
>>> tape attachment :-).
>>
>> You have no idea how happy I am that I never needed to mess with that stuff. Still, the point is well-made: most
>> programmers don't know how to optimize code because they've always considered RAM to be an endless resource.
>
> and that is why i consider such developers as idiots
I agree. The problem we have today is that everyone who can write "Hello
world!" in HTML considers themselves to be a "programmer".
> if someone DOES NOT KNOW how to optimize code he has to
> learn it and should not call himself a programmer before
>
> IMHO developers should be forced to test their crap on
> a older machine with 17" display as also web-developers
> should work on servers with mod_bw and 128kbit bandwidth
>
> our machines would be 2-5 times faster these days..........
> and yes having a 4 GHz CPU 3 times faster is noticeable
I couldn't agree more. :)
Gordan
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