On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Casey Ransberger <[email protected] > wrote:
> But in general... my computer is only a tiny bit faster than the one I had > in the early nineties. In terms of day to day stuff, it's only gotten a > tinsy bit faster. Sometimes I sit there looking at an hourglass or a beach > ball and think to myself "this only used to happen when I was waiting on a > disk to spin about. There isn't even a disk in this thing. What the hell?" > > Hypothesis: Mainstream software slows down at a rate slightly less than > mainstream hardware speeds up. It's an almost-but-not-quite-inverse Moore's > Law. > Unless someone else has called this out directly, I'm calling it Joe's > Law, because I don't want to deal with the backlash! > It's a variation on Parkinson's Law.
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