Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ...
by josephg on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:57AM
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I have a running theory about software developers: the average programmer makes code just fast enough that it doesn’t feel slow on their own machine.
Of course, us software engineers usually buy very expensive computers! The end result is that the average software will always run slowly on the average hardware, forever, no matter how fast hardware gets.
It’s a tragedy and I hate it. I feel like software engineers need “slow CPU thursdays” or something, where every Thursday your cpu is intentionally throttled down to run at the speed of a below average user’s computer. If we don’t feel our user’s pain, we will never understand it.
(Though this would only take off if we could whitelist the compiler somehow. Hm! I wonder how you’d implement that!)
Of course, us software engineers usually buy very expensive computers! The end result is that the average software will always run slowly on the average hardware, forever, no matter how fast hardware gets.
It’s a tragedy and I hate it. I feel like software engineers need “slow CPU thursdays” or something, where every Thursday your cpu is intentionally throttled down to run at the speed of a below average user’s computer. If we don’t feel our user’s pain, we will never understand it.
(Though this would only take off if we could whitelist the compiler somehow. Hm! I wonder how you’d implement that!)