| rindolf | Chekov: I disagree with what ESR says in TAOUP that you shouldn't apply factor optimisations. I think they can make a very large difference. |
| rindolf | Chekov: he seems to imply you should wait until computers are fast enough. |
| rindolf | Problem is people don't want to upgrade and if a competing program (maybe a fork ) is much faster, then some of them will switch. |
| rindolf | Programs being speedy is one thing that makes me happy. |
| rindolf | I love all the work the KDE people did in making KDE-4.6.0 fast. |
| vanguard | rindolf: awesome blog link! |
| rindolf | And I enjoy the fact that Pidgin is much faster than Kopete (and also less buggy). |
| rindolf | I've used Kopete for far too long. |
| osoleve | rindolf: switch to Irssi and Bitlbee! :D |
| rindolf | vanguard: yes. |
| rindolf | vanguard: though they failed on Google Wave. |
| rindolf | osoleve: nah, I like Pidgin. |
| rindolf | osoleve: it's fast enough for me. |
| rindolf | osoleve: and I also prefer XChat. |
| osoleve | but is it nerdy enough? |
| rindolf | osoleve: I'm not trying to be a Ubergeek. |
| rindolf | osoleve: real men use Xmonad! |
| vanguard | Hey, it is not Uber but Über ... :D |
| rindolf | real programmers use butterflies. |
| Chekov | real programmers are Tao |
| osoleve | real programmers flip bits by hand |
| Chekov | real programmers speak assembly |
| rindolf | Chuck Norris is a real programmer who implements the most optimised machines for solving a problem out of physical atoms. |
| vanguard | real programmers use a nice editor and a programming language and get done in less than O(N!) |