Why I use old hardware

Re:Why I use old hardware by the_cat_kittles on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:09PM (#18981534)

i hate these kind of taylorist arguments. dev's limiting factor is always energy, not time. and i cannot imagine any good devs i know truly caring that they arent on the latest and greatest. i guess i just wouldn't work somewhere people care about that kind of shit, so maybe im biased.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by ShroudedNight on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:50PM (#18984027)

> dev's limiting factor is always energy, not time

If this is true, I would expect that investing in hardware that most effectively gets out of a dev's way to have an even higher return on investment than is suggested by time and productivity arguments. The emotional toll of dealing with the dev equivalent of paper cuts should not be under-appreciated.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by Aeolun on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:51PM (#18986083)

As long as it doesn’t get in their way, I think the previous statement is indeed true.

Devs don’t care whether their laptop is 2 years old or not, they care that their compilation takes 5 minutes when it could be 2.

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