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from cm0002@lemy.lol to programming@programming.dev on 23 Feb 04:29
https://lemy.lol/post/61552801

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tal@lemmy.today on 23 Feb 06:34 next collapse

UNIX schedulers became better and better, and eventually nobody needed to set process priorities and nice levels anymore.

I use nice levels.

gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Feb 07:34 collapse

Because you want to, or because you need to?

totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone on 23 Feb 14:39 collapse

Some people are just nice by nature.

arnitbier@sh.itjust.works on 23 Feb 06:57 next collapse

This is a really good read, not sure why its not being appreciated more

Well thought out and well done, thanks for sharing

Guess it just kinda pisses everyone off by not “taking a side” on this set of issues but its a rock solid blogpost for anyone IMO

bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 15:41 collapse

Yeah I thought so too! I am not sure why it’s not appreciated more either, it was a great read!

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 22:21 collapse

Not sure I follow the DOS/Windows analogy. Unless you spent all your time designing GUIs, a lot of those skills carried over. Especially with the advent of VisualStudio (also developed to replace engineers), you could drag and drop a window layout, double-click an button and continue coding as before. There was a small mental leap necessary to write event-driven code (instead of using a superloop), but that’s an afternoon-long “a ha” epiphany, not going back to school for a new degree. Ditto for MVC-like layering.

And the DOS/Windows analogy is further baffling since Windows-native coding has mostly come and gone. Even “native” Windows apps are typically Electron — web pages captured in a window

Unless the author is saying we must always run to stand still, which they seem to reject early on.