Hmm, This Still Works
Apparently Blogger is still letting me post at the moment. If it were to fail me, my emergency blog at WordPress is no easier to use, though. Why is it that the more software gets improved, the harder it is to use, the more it breaks, and the more memory and CPU cycles it requires? I would have been perfectly happy with Windows 95 had it worked as advertised. I betcha just rewriting the whole thing with knowledge of the bad mistakes to eliminate would have been better than writing version after version of new bloatware. The hardware guys, with their faster processors and cheaper abundant memory, have been covering the sins of the irresponsible coder dweebs for entirely too long.
posted by Justthisguy at 5/19/2012 02:20:00 AM
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JTG, you have perfectly described bloatware. In the software biz, bloatware is coded and published for one reason: to sell more storage space and more powerful computers. My smartphone has all the computing power I'll ever use, and then some, but the average laptop (ooops, old word, they are now notebooks) computer now has at least 500 gigabyte storage and 4 gigabyte RAM, all upgradeable to much higher amounts.
Why? Ask any coder who is having a uncharacteristic fit of honesty: they will tell you that for every line of necessary code, several to ten lines of "garbage code" are written. If every line of code was written carefully, instead of just slammed out in a Red Bull moment, the garbage code would not be required.
I have a son in the IT biz. When he was training in college, his class was told to write the code for a universal compiler. He wrote his in less than 30 lines. The rest of the class took 200-300 lines to write theirs. The professor told him it wouldn't work, and until the boy sat down at the professor's desk with his laptop and showed him that his compiler worked, he wasn't believed.
Also, few programs are built to run on their own, but are built in "suites" of programs, few of which you will ever use. If you want to buy just MS Word, good luck finding it outside of Office Suite.
All this has led to "the cloud", because bloating had gotten so bad that even multi-terabyte hard drives couldn't handle it all, so now we have to depend on someone else's server drives to hold "our" information, which really isn't ours any more. Read the EULA. You have just given marketing rights to your data to whoever is running that "cloud" server-farm.
We are so screwed. Save the last bullet for yourself, but make the rest of them do their job before you do.
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