Why I use old hardware

Re:Why I use old hardware by epistasis on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:22AM (#18978857)

I feel the same way, honestly. I do wonder if the programming environment has a huge impact on this though. Did you colleagues use an IDE of some sort? If you're a vim or emacs user, the editor doesn't require much. If your compiling a ton of C++ then maybe a faster processor would help.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by tombert on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:27AM (#18978931)

I think one of them used Webstorm, I was using NeoVim, and the rest were using SublimeText.

I feel like if we were doing something that required C or C++ (e.g. video processing or data-training), then they might have had a point about wanting to upgrade, but we were doing a lot of fairly typical Node.js REST stuff, something that could fairly easily run on a Raspberry Pi.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by arvinsim on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:28AM (#18978941)

From my experience, IDEs benefit the most from more RAM.

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