[Tfug] Cheap Memory

[Nathanial Hendler]

On Dec 17, 2007 9:18 PM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:

> But, in the grand scheme of things, where is time best spent?  If you train
> 100 programmers to write decent, but not particularly efficent, code on modern
> hardware, is that not better than training/educating 10 programmers to write
> very good and very efficient code?

In the grand scheme of things, no one's time is best spent training
programmers.  They make obnoxious puns and don't bathe.  I want to
train people to drink and play ping-pong.

I don't care about memory usage nearly as much as I do about coders
using the latest greatest libraries or development tools when they
don't have to and thus failing to be backwards compatible for no good
reason.

How many stupid little OSX programs require 10.4 or higher, when you
know they don't have to?  Or when you open a simple PDF and it
requires the latest reader.  What?  It's not like the old readers
didn't support the letter 'L' and you *have* to use a new format that
isn't backwards compatible.  Planned obsolescence is way worse than
wasting RAM.

And why don't printers ever work!?!  Use all the memory you want, just
print already!

And how come everything requires so much RAM these days?!?

-N