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@Root Yeah, and online devs should test with slow internet connection at high latency.
Also, code should be tested with way more data than the expected use case, at least by a factor of 1000. -
@Demolishun Oh we had lots of sand, even sand delivery lorries. No shit, really! In winter, they delivered gravel against icy streets.
However, these were not the modern kind with automatic delivery. They had open platforms loaded with gravel, and two men stood there who shovelled the gravel onto the streets. Rural Western Germany in the 1980s.
"Twenty centimetres of fresh snow" was the code that I needed to get up half an hour earlier because I wouldn't be able to ride my bicycle to school and had to walk these 2km. Back then, parents didn't drive their kids to school, that was unheard of. -
@Demolishun In spring, the streets were drowned in gravel, and there was no cleaning service. We had a spring neighbourhood festival where everyone took a broom, and even the elderly baked some cake for the working ones.
We saved the sand and put it in bags which we used later for heavy rainfalls to protect houses with cellars against the water masses. Sometimes, it rained so much that the water pressed the manhole covers out of their sockets in the streets. -
@sudo-woodo I'm in my forties and have been programming since before a lot of DR members were even the lustful glint in their parents' eyes. ^^
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@Demolishun No shame intended! I asked because it's fascinating how much computing has changed so fast, from MHz to GHz is nothing short of a revolution, and from what you and @Fast-Nop said it took less than half a lifetime.
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@Fast-Nop you're last couple of comments were so well written, reading them felt like stumbling on passages lifted straight from a novel set in someone's nostalgic youth. very relaxing read. thank you for that.
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@bulletsponge Of course, and it was in fact uphill both ways - though in different sections of the way.
Oh, and I can't see that clearly without glasses, but you aren't stepping on my lawn, are you? -
@Fast-Nop I love it... Good chuckle.
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