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metadattoday at 6:47 PM5 repliesview on HN

It’s crazy how computers still seem to get perceivably slow every few years, given how many instructions can be executed in 1ms. Shameful, even..

What’s that law called about programmers wasting all the compute on abstraction?


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mwigdahltoday at 7:45 PM

Wirth's Law I believe.

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HappyPanaceatoday at 6:49 PM

The new windows notepad is a disgrace

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summarybottoday at 7:45 PM

The OS should do less not more

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inigyoutoday at 8:00 PM

Andy and Bill's Law

LoganDarktoday at 6:49 PM

Huh? A millisecond is an eternity!

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