Slow Software

Post by pjmlp » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 7:09 AM UTC

coder543 wrote: post #70

godDLL wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While running a Linux stack may still work, your Mac info is outdated by three years, at least. Macs have entered the zoo in 2015.

For practical purposes, that's not true. Macs do not allow running unsigned software by default, and no one runs antivirus on Mac, ever. So even if they were commonly being infected, which they aren't, the person above would have organizational indemnity if someone were infected because they're following industry best practices by not running antivirus on Mac. If you want, you can further restrict Macs to only App St…

Post by pjmlp » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 7:11 AM UTC

coder543 wrote: post #72

__mifflin wrote: post #71

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> and no one runs antivirus on the Mac, ever. Working at a large company (also not one of the famous silicon valley tech companies) and if you get a macbook, they are managed remotely and have BitDefender installed.

I sometimes forget how much big companies enjoy spending money. I once worked for a large company where every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office, even though most of them worked inside a fullscreen Linux VM all day. Outlook was the only piece of Office that my coworkers and I used, and I would have been happier using a tab open to a webmail provider inside the VM than having to use Outlook to connec…

Post by richjdsmith » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 7:43 AM UTC

godDLL wrote: post #63

throwaway286 wrote: post #56

I work at a large company that is not one of the famous silicon valley tech companies. One of the worst parts of working there is the heap of various enterprise anti-virus software they install on our computers. It brings huge typing and disk access latencies. Even opening files in vim with FZF is slow. I can't explain why but this makes programming so much less pleasant. I really just want to work somewhere without…

I went into construction, and then industrial alpinism with tree-trimming inclination starting 2016. But before I did that, the one-before-the-last place I've tried to work was this hostile environment where everything was Windows and MS-based, as far as what we were meant to use for work. I couldn't bring my own lappy. I ended up writing an AutoHotkey script that would get mouse scrolling about 80% sane and manage m…

Post by setquk » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

jaxn wrote: post #73

coder543 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft Defender typically doesn't hurt performance or security much. The alternative is to run Mac or Linux stacks instead of a Windows stack, of course.

Microsoft Defender destroys WSL performance unless you create exclusions.

Post by setquk » Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 8:13 AM UTC

ploxiln wrote: post #44

coder543 wrote: post #5

I think this article places too much emphasis on input devices and hardware constraints, and not enough on software architecture. JIRA doesn't really feel any faster just because your input devices are fast; the application level latency dwarfs the input latency by a large margin. I would take measurements, but JIRA prohibits benchmarking for some reason... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they're probably just trying to save everyone else…

Jira is in a league of its own. With latest stable Firefox on a Macbook Pro from 2014, I get a full 10 seconds loading time for the notifications sidebar. Every click in Jira takes between 5 and 15 seconds. It is absolutely nuts and it seems like many people just don't understand how insanely bad it is (but obviously many engineers do ;) Meanwhile my browser can load, render, and scroll a 4000 line colored diff in le…