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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by nashashmi on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:35AM (#43267939)
> The craft of real engineering—building sharp, efficient, elegant systems—is buried under layers of corporate sludge

No. It is buried under the laziness of build-fast, optimize-next. Except optimizing never comes. Building fast requires lightweight development on heavyweight architectures. And that means using bloats like JS frameworks.

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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by ryandrake on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:31AM (#43268806)
It might be time for "24 core CPU and I can't move my mouse"[1][2] to make the rounds on HN again.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733829

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032

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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by wat10000 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:35AM (#43268864)
There's a saying about engineering, "Anyone can design a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands."

I might rephrase that for our field: anyone can design software that works. It takes an engineer to design software that barely works.

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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by nashashmi on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:47PM (#43272135)
I would substitute barely with efficiently.
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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by wat10000 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:25PM (#43275660)
That would imply that software engineers make good software, which is the opposite of my intent.
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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by nashashmi on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:29AM (#43279452)
I thought you were implying few behave like an actual engineer.
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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by wat10000 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:37AM (#43282128)
More that software engineers mostly do a poor job of engineering. (Saying this as one myself, naturally.) Same basic point in the end.
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