Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by guidoism on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:34PM (#21942545)

I'm actually pretty amazed at what the Javascript VM people have done in the past decade. It's way more than I ever expected.

As far as the carbon footprint, well, yeah, it depends. At Google I remember a friend talking about how he cringed whenever he added more code to the pipeline that ingests the entire internet. He said that he wondered how much extra carbon was release into the atmosphere just because of his stupid code.

As for numpy, we are seeing that loops are stupid and Iverson and APL were right. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by bjz_ on Friday January 03, 2020 @06:30AM (#21944999)

> At Google I remember a friend talking about how he cringed whenever he added more code to the pipeline that ingests the entire internet. He said that he wondered how much extra carbon was release into the atmosphere just because of his stupid code.

I wish companies were under more financial pressure to actually track and mitigate this. (hint hint, carbon taxes)

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by SamReidHughes on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:53PM (#21950771)

If you run your data centers where electricity is cheap, you're using electricity but not emitting very much carbon dioxide.

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