Re:Ask HN: How long does it take to setup your dev environment?
by zer00eyz on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:42PM
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> I thought this would get better with docker, but it seems to always be a multi-day process to get up and running.
I never thought of it till you said this but it has almost always been this way (roughly) -
Every gain in performance has been met with a gain in bloat.
From web page size, to databases, to our dev environments we just keep piling more crap in. Some gives us marginal gains in productivity and performance to accommodate another set of likely marginal features. Someone once described a coworker as a "technological magpie" who would latch on to the newest shiny object, and I think that lots of us have this affliction and are unaware of it or don't know how to fight it.
I never thought of it till you said this but it has almost always been this way (roughly) -
Every gain in performance has been met with a gain in bloat.
From web page size, to databases, to our dev environments we just keep piling more crap in. Some gives us marginal gains in productivity and performance to accommodate another set of likely marginal features. Someone once described a coworker as a "technological magpie" who would latch on to the newest shiny object, and I think that lots of us have this affliction and are unaware of it or don't know how to fight it.