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aynycyesterday at 7:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Ha! Maybe Javascript developers will finally drop memory usage! You need to display the multiplication table? Please allocate 1GB of RAM. Oh, you want alternate row coloring? Here is another 100MB of CSS to do that.

edit: this is a joke


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phantasmishyesterday at 8:09 PM

I do sometimes reflect on how 64MB of memory was enough to browse the Web with two or three tabs open, and (if running BeOS) even play MP3s at the same time with no stutters. 128MB felt luxurious at that time, it was like having no (memory-imposed) limits on personal computing tasks at all.

Now you can't even fit a browser doing nothing into that memory...

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baal80spamyesterday at 8:56 PM

Haha, the amount of downvotes of your very true comment just proves how many web developers are there on HN.

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