Why I use old hardware

Re:Why I use old hardware by jacoblambda on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:16PM (#18981604)

You could easily argue the opposite as well. Developers don't need an IDE, a SQL server, an HTTP server, etc running on their device at all. The choice is to use a bloated IDE that most people only use a small fraction of the features for. The servers could all run on a dev server and compile/test cycles can be done on similar servers.

Mind you I don't necessarily agree with all of this. Well except the IDE part, Vim and Emacs are tools that more people need to learn.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by Macha on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:35PM (#18984835)

> The servers could all run on a dev server and compile/test cycles can be done on similar servers.

In every case I've had a dev db running on a shared test server, that DB has been woefully underspecced for the purpose and often in a datacenter with 300ms latency from the office over the company VPN.

While production instances are in the same datacenter as the production DB with 5ms latency.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by acheron on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:37PM (#18981879)

You're using emacs as an example of non-bloated? Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping?

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Re:Why I use old hardware by jacoblambda on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:40PM (#18982650)

Ya you're right. I should have used something more light weight like Atom.

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Re:Why I use old hardware by makapuf on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:49PM (#18982015)

I understand it's a whole 0.1% of physical memory for the program you're spending most of your time. Better reduce that to 0.06 quick.

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