Timeline for What causes bad performance in consumer apps? [closed]
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| Aug 5, 2015 at 22:11 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @MasonWheeler Often it's crapware bundled with some non-crappy service - e.g. the OP's example of a cable box - the cable box is crap, but you have to use it anyway to get cable. | |
| Sep 23, 2013 at 2:47 | history | closed |
gbjbaanb user40980 user16764 Dan Pichelman user53019 |
Opinion-based | |
| Sep 22, 2013 at 21:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 22, 2013 at 19:50 | answer | added | Disillusioned | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 14, 2012 at 7:29 | comment | added | Crashworks | @BlueRaja Well, I know how I optimize software. What I don't understand is why no one else seems to bother! | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 3:01 | comment | added | Vector | @Mason Wheeler - a lot of this stuff we don't buy - it comes bundled with hardware devices, etc. Ever buy a Sony product - a reader or audio recorder for example? Device is great, the software on the enclosed CD to support the device is a disaster - but you have no choice about it. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 2:53 | answer | added | Vector | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 14:12 | comment | added | Carlos Campderrós | Instead of "Is it because these were all written in managed, garbage-collected languages?" I read "Is it because these were all written in garbage languages chosen by managers?" | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 13:57 | comment | added | Steven A. Lowe | @Crashworks: I have all of the same devices you mention, and they work just fine. Clearly, hardware hates you, and you hate hardware. There's too much hate in the world already. Have you tried counseling? ;-) | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 6:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/83420174740488194 | ||
| Jun 22, 2011 at 5:52 | comment | added | user1249 | @BlueRaja, you totally misunderstand Knuths quote. | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 5:52 | comment | added | user1249 | what iPhone is this? | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 5:30 | answer | added | hotpaw2 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 5:14 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | Also, who says optimization is the root of all evil? :) | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 5:13 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | From the neat SO posts you've written in the past, Crashworks, I gather that your entire job consists of optimizing video game software, so it seems like you should know the answer to this better than anyone... | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 4:16 | comment | added | Мסž | They were developed in modern, non-garbage-collected corporations. | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 3:07 | history | edited | Crashworks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
whoops i meant iPod not iPad
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| Jun 22, 2011 at 2:41 | answer | added | Mike Dunlavey | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 2:40 | comment | added | Wyatt Barnett | How old are the devices in question? They could be living well beyond their expected lives -- cable boxes are running software conceived after they were built; iPhone 3GS were introduced with iOS 3.0. | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 2:04 | answer | added | Dave Nay | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 1:20 | answer | added | Bob Murphy | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 1:20 | answer | added | Tim Williscroft | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 0:30 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @Crashworks: Yeah, pretty much. People wouldn't keep selling crapware if we wouldn't keep buying it. | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 0:27 | answer | added | mattnz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 22, 2011 at 0:02 | history | edited | Crashworks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
less inflammatory (and funny) headline
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| Jun 21, 2011 at 23:50 | comment | added | Crashworks | @Michael : That seems to align with "my fault for having bought these devices", or more generally, "our fault as consumers for accepting this level of shoddiness." | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 23:49 | history | edited | Crashworks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
remove some overuse of "frustrated"
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| Jun 21, 2011 at 23:47 | comment | added | Michael Todd | You're assuming things went wrong. At some point someone said "that's good enough" and shipped their product. If end users accept it, well, there it is. (Not saying it's right, but there has to be a balance between ship it now and ship it never.) | |
| Jun 21, 2011 at 23:37 | history | asked | Crashworks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |