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Re:Reducing Slack’s memory footprint by coldtea on Saturday March 04, 2017 @05:56AM (#13790330)
Because Electron (or whatever they use) is web-scale.
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Re:Reducing Slack’s memory footprint by mdekkers on Saturday March 04, 2017 @11:14AM (#13791472)
Because Electron (or whatever they use) is web-scale.

Web-scale? What's web scale? why does my desktop client need to be "web-scale"?

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Re:Reducing Slack’s memory footprint by coldtea on Saturday March 04, 2017 @11:57AM (#13791700)
Everything needs to be web-scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

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Re:Reducing Slack’s memory footprint by paulddraper on Saturday March 04, 2017 @06:08PM (#13793408)
/dev/null is web-scale

http://engineering.wayfair.com/2013/04/devnull-vs-mongodb-be...

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Re:Reducing Slack’s memory footprint by mdekkers on Saturday March 04, 2017 @12:50PM (#13791977)
That's hilarious
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