Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Painters in 2004?

Re:Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Pain... by dkersten on Saturday September 10, 2011 @06:33PM (#2982674)

I would say that now (post-ajax and tablets), we're beginning to get quite close to your prediction.

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Re:Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Pain... by matthodan on Saturday September 10, 2011 @07:26PM (#2982771)

Are we not coming full circle? Can't you make the argument that we're getting closer to a world in which all the server does is store and retrieve information, while the browser does the heavy lifting? Thank you JavaScript and web APIs.

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Re:Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Pain... by william42 on Sunday September 11, 2011 @01:25AM (#2983285)

Actually, I'd say we've gotten to the point where it usually doesn't matter who does the «heavy lifting», because CPU time is so comparatively cheap.

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Re:Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Pain... by dkersten on Sunday September 11, 2011 @04:37PM (#2984746)

Would you say the same is true for, eg, the «heavy lifting» done by a Google search? I certainly wouldn't, so I don't think your statement is true in the general case, though it is certainly true for a large class of software.

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Re:Ask PG: What has changed since you wrote Hackers and Pain... by gbog on Sunday September 11, 2011 @04:57AM (#2983510)

I have the feeling that hard work on browser is still a bad idea.

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