Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ?

Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by patio11 on Thursday December 31, 2009 @11:15AM (#1024458)

I think the general (IT level) programmer community doesn't require more processing power to do their jobs than they would have had on a single core desktop in 1999, anyhow.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by dnewcome on Thursday December 31, 2009 @11:54AM (#1024509)

It may be true that programmers don't strictly require the power, but interesting things become possible when you can afford to waste a lot of power. This should be evident by looking at Rails etc. In another 10 years who knows what will be possible by wasting another 100x processing power?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by tptacek on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:07PM (#1024654)

I don't think you could have comfortably done Rails dev on the typical 1999 workstation.

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