25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
5:40 p.m.
On 25/10/11 1:15 PM, Dave Caroline wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Chuck Guzis<cclist
at sydex.com> wrote:
I fully agree.
--Toby
On 25 Oct 2011 at 10:50, Mouse wrote:
An easy cure is give developers slow machines with limited memory and
slow disk subsystems. "The most amazing achievement of the
computer software industry is its
continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the
computer hardware industry." - Henry Petroski
I remember an Intel engineer summarizing this more succinctly
somewhat like this:
"We work hard to build chips with amazing performance and the
software people piss it all away."
--Chuck
I do that to myself. I find it a good way to discover
the "right way" TM
Dave Caroline