Comment by moffkalast

4 years ago

Well given how absurdly big the difference is, and the main thing he did was render on demand instead of 7000fps I think he has a good reason to be condescending and they totally deserve it for wasting millions of people's time with this shit.

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mkr-hn  4 years ago

See also: the blinking cursor in Visual Studio Code.

Here's a thread on it with other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014

They fixed it, but it was a sign of the times. Everything we've used over the decades had to be re-implemented for the web and stuff like Electron, and the people doing the implementing use such powerful machines that they don't even notice a simple blinking cursor devouring CPU or think about its impact on normal computers.

  • trulyme  4 years ago

    This! Developers at MS (edit: and elsewhere) should be forced to use their brainwork on low-end machines at least two days a week.

    Or not - regardless of what MS employee claimed, Linux terminals performance is more than adequate.

    Edit: I am speaking of Linux, not WSL, of course.

lkey  4 years ago

Yes, the open source volunteers and random employees deserve it. They are responsible for all of microsoft's many sins, and we should find them online and tell them they are trash tier developers until they learn their lesson, right?

Ok, sarcasm off. This attitude is utterly toxic. People who are ignorant of how fast their software could be do not deserve abuse from strangers.

  • wtallis  4 years ago

    > People who are ignorant of how fast their software could be do not deserve abuse from strangers.

    That's not the only valid way to frame the situation. At some level, professional software developers have a responsibility to be somewhat aware of the harm their currently-shipping code is doing.

    • lkey  4 years ago

      Taking responsibility (which the developers later did by the way, even in this thread) and enduring abuse (which is also well documented here and elsewhere) should not be put on the same level.

      More broadly, I'd much rather endure a slightly slow terminal made by developers acting in the open and in (mostly) good faith than the intentionally malicious software produced by actual bad actors within Google, Facebook, Microsoft et all..

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