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Re:History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player i... by gukjoon on Friday August 08, 2008 @01:29PM (#270775)
I've always thought that this criticism didn't make sense. Improvements in software are highly dependent on improvements in hardware: http://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html What would have once taken incredible software engineering skills is now trivial. Hardware is a big constraint on software development. How can you possibly expect software and hardware development to be neck and neck?
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Re:History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player i... by thaumaturgy on Friday August 08, 2008 @01:39PM (#270789)
Improvement in hardware promotes laziness in software development.
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Re:History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player i... by gukjoon on Friday August 08, 2008 @02:05PM (#270826)
Hahahha maybe.

But maybe it's a good thing we don't have to churn butter anymore, right? Improvements in technology mean that we don't have to deal with the low level stuff that's been done a million times before, allowing us to focus on high level stuff that nobody's done.

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Re:History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player i... by a-priori on Friday August 08, 2008 @02:03PM (#270824)
Maybe in the general case (i.e, most software development), but in the special case (i.e, high performance computing, which this falls under), more powerful hardware begets more powerful software.
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Re:History made: Go program MoGo beats professional player i... by ericwan on Friday August 08, 2008 @05:20PM (#271028)
It also means we can do more with less. =)
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