mulanderJul 17, 2018

There should be a global 'awareness' week for developers. For a week reduce your RAM to 2 GB, disable all cores except 2, downscale your resolution to 1366x768 and cap your internet at 1 Mbps (or less for mobile developers)...

Maybe, just maybe we will start to have less crappy, bloated software.

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@mulander 2GB? Generous.

My rule is, give developers PCs that match the smallest spec the software is supposed to run on. And plug your ears, because they'll whinge.

Show threadwinmine.exeJul 17, 2018
@mwlucas @mulander this is what MS did for Windows 95 - developers had computers with either minimum or recommended specs and for a developer to get more, they had to make a hell of a case. should be somewhere on Raymond Chen's blog.
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@mwlucas @mulander think I found it https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120102-00/?p=8743/
Why wasn’t the Windows 95 shell prototyped on Windows NT?

Carlos wonders why the Windows 95 shell was prototyped as 16-bit code running on the still-under-development 32-bit kernel, USER, and GDI as opposed to being prototyped as fully 32-bit code on Windows NT. There were a number of reasons, some good, some bad. One reason was that the Windows 95 shell was being developed by the...

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Show threadMarcin CieślakJul 19, 2018
@calvin @mulander @mwlucas Early MS DOS versions had to be cross built on SCP machine because the whole thing didn't fit into IBM PC memory
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