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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by CryoLogic on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:06PM (#16978988)
Half of Hackernews is discussion about six figure tech salaries, the other half is complaints about 300mb (aka ~$2) ram being to expensive for an app.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9864/price-of-ddr4-memory-dro...

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by Barraketh on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:48PM (#16979431)
Yup, but we're all running these apps on laptops, which have a fixed amount of RAM that is sometimes impossible to increase (looking at you, Apple)
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by spookthesunset on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:00PM (#16980129)
> Half of Hackernews is discussion about six figure tech salaries, the other half is complaints about 300mb (aka ~$2) ram being to expensive for an app.

Slashdot got like this eventually. Slashdot was tech site full of luddites complaining about anything new. Worse, slashdot stopped becoming relevant. When the top comment on an article about increased hard drive space was "why does all this stuff take so much space? bloat!! lazy developers!!!".... it's pretty lame.

300mb of ram is nothing. Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it and it will be no big deal. People need to stop micromanaging their computer and go do more productive things with their time....

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by Avamander on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:43PM (#16982127)
> People need to stop micromanaging their computer

You're so wrong. This hogging literally causes micromanagement. I have to start closing browser tabs and maybe at some point my IDE or a few open files so that just Slack or Discord or some other piece of horrendously bloated software could hog up another half a gigabyte of RAM. When Eight gigabytes stop being enough because of some chat applications it's not okay. Calling people that think software can actually use resources meaningfully "luddites" is counterproductive and damaging to the entire PC ecosystem, RAM and disk space are limited resources on most PCs and people do not want and should not have to spend more just to run a few chat applications.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by Mithaldu on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:12PM (#16980751)
> Your OS will swap the software out when you aren't using it

Wrong, since Electron apps NEVER sit still.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by majewsky on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:10PM (#16979673)
There are, in fact, people who are not SV software developers.
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by gruez on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:33PM (#16979243)
and what about people who use electron apps that aren't silicon valley programmers?
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by saagarjha on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:40PM (#16980954)
They can't properly voice their complaints because they don't know why their software is terrible; just that it is terrible.
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by reiichiroh on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:29PM (#16979834)
This is from 2015. RAM prices remain artificially high.
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by dracodoc on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:14PM (#16979704)
What if all your RAM slots are taken, or your laptop cannot upgrade RAM at all?
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by allenz on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:49PM (#16979442)
To be fair, RAM is much more expensive to upgrade on MacBooks and other premium laptops.
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