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[+] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Counterpoint: Every developer should have to test their app on a machine with 1 GB of RAM and a dialup modem before inflicting their bloat on the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I just tried doing some work on a convention center WiFi connection in a small town. And it was clear the software I was using had no concept of slow internet. No progress bars on downloads, no resuming when connections dropped.

    Everything just assumes max performance and fast network.

    works on my machine

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I remember some years ago when a version of MSDN came out that had clearly been developed entirely on enormously wide monitors. Despite word-wrapping being a problem that the programming world solved many decades ago, this version of MSDN had completely fucked it up and you could only read it on a normal laptop screen by scrolling left and right with the horizontal scroll bar for every line. I spent months copying every article I needed to read into Notepad.

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