[Python-Dev] On the dangers of giving developers the best resources (original) (raw)

Nam Nguyen bitsink at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 04:30:30 CEST 2013

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:22 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

On 08/10/2013 23:21, Tim Delaney wrote:

On 9 October 2013 09:10, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org_ _<mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:

It's not actually so much the extreme waste that I'm looking to expose, but rather the day-to-day annoyances of stuff you use regularly that slows you down by just a second (or ten), or things that gets slower at each release.

Veering off-topic (but still related) ... There's a reason I turn off all animations when I set up a machine for someone ... I've found turning off the animations is the quickest way to make a machine feel faster - even better than adding an SSD. The number of times I've fixed a "slow" machine by this one change ... I think everyone even remotely involved in the existence of animations in the OS should be forced to have the slowest animations turned on at all times, no matter the platform (OSX, Windows, Linux ...). Which comes back to the idea of developers having slow machines so they feel the pain ... I remember one time when I was using a Mac. Although it was faster than another machine I was using, the GUI felt sluggish because instead of windows just appearing and disappearing they expanded and contracted, which, of course, took time; not much time, true, but enough to become annoying.

Try holding shift and minimizing/restoring Finder in OS X ;). Nam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20131009/69068d53/attachment.html>

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