I think if you took software developers from 1998 and brought them to 2020 they'd think that software is blazingly fast when written ("Only *weeks* between releases? You're kidding!") and blazingly slow from a user interaction perspective ("Did a war stop Moore's Law?!")
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A lot of software now have internet latency baked in it. Kinda hard to "Moore's law" out of it
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Not a problem unknown to people who used Pine.
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Speaking of which, Stripe Dashboard is not too fast either. I mean.. not terrible, but also not great. Is there an initiative within Stripe that would like to 10x this?
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Several, and we’re actively hiring if anyone is looking:https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/performance-engineer-san-francisco/2100580 …
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NO KIDDING. I got so annoyed with Slack's input lag that I measured it last week with 240fps on a gopro. Turns out, input lag just typing in a chat in Slack has standard 120ms input lag and sometimes much worse (200+ms). What did we do to deserve that??
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the major sin was turning rich text document format and language to create macros in it and turn it into full featured application development environment & runtime.
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Until you consider the fact that you’re loading Gmail on a retrofitted printer (i.e. document viewing technology aka browser).
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I used text email clients (mutt, notmuch) for many years. The fix is to just leave a gmail tab open. Compose+send is fast if the tab is already open. And you’ll get new emails into your inbox much faster than in any text client setup I ever had :)
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If you don't want a a full Gmail tab (or to get distracted by your inbox) I prepared http://tiny.cc/compose that loads a full-screen draft quickly. (Desktop only)
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My father though would have never been able to email me random pictures of our dog from Pine. There is maybe some value in lowering the entry bar into technology. But also long way to go still in terms of speed and software performance.
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Exactly this! Performance is the price we've paid for inclusion and usability improvements. There is still fast software today, just not for the majority of use cases. It's done where it matters, but there's no good ROI in speeding things up for the average Saas business
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