"if you don't build me a world eating data center my shitty autocomplete algorithm will run slow :(" meanwhile in the 90s if your code needed more than a few bytes of ram they just took you into the parking lot and shot you
@computer
Can confirm, i've been shot so many times in my foot.
@FritzAdalis @computer
C programmer?
@silvermoon82 @computer
I write terrible code in just about every language.

@computer

The problem with programmers these days isn’t that they can’t fit a line printer driver in a couple of spare bytes in high memory, it’s that they won’t even try.

@computer Worse. If your code was inefficient, they sent you off to write COBOL.
@divVerent @computer if you didn't write in FORTRAN, you were wasting cycles.
@computer @ghouston I now have an urge to see Carmackk's inv sqrt in FORTRAN.
@computer good times, good times.

@computer

That's a Silicon Valley thing, dude.

Japan is polite and traditional. Here, they just nicely asked you to go into the office garden and commit Seppuku.

@computer Back in the 90s, at the height of the editor wars, SuSE Linux described the emacs package with the backronym: Eight Megabytes Always Continuously Swapping

Those were the days when 8MiB was a dis, not a flex.

@computer Maybe in the 90s. In the 80s if you had a problem with resource use they just used a laser to send you inside the computer yourself to figure out what was going on. TRace ON.
@computer ah, see, that doesn't matter now because RAM is so cheap /s
@computer Jokes on them, autocomplete has become so useless in the past 5 years I turned it off ages ago anf just eat my typos as they come.

@computer

My first web design job had the following constraint: max 10kByte per page, total, including all formatting and graphics.

Today I look at current web monsters and can only shake my head in disgust.

@computer I didn't think I'd yearn for the times when 768KB were enough
@computer building a sandbox for only the MOST BASIC exchange of text-data requires 41MB (excluding kernel) on a so called "lean OS" ...