Living in the Era of Infinite Computing Power

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"Are you taking advantage of living in the era of infinite computing power? Have you set aside fixations with low-level performance? Have you put your own productivity ahead of vague concerns with optimization?"

Many people do, and here I am, with a crappy Android phone I wish I hadn't got. A phone that can hang up for a minute or two when you want to access your text messages. Posting a Facebook update takes 10 minutes. Everything is unreliable and can crash for random reasons.

My old, very low-level SE K800i had a much better user experience.

Maybe computing power is infinite, if your application lives alone on your computer.

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