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Re: Slow Software

#91

Post by coldtea »

godDLL wrote: post #65
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.

While running a Linux stack may still work, your Mac info is outdated by three years, at least.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.

>Macs have entered the zoo in 2015.

What "zoo"?

To this day, Macs are practically virus-less, which they always where (99.999% of the scares in the media were for trojans, and even those at worse affected something like 1-5% of the total user base) -- nothing like the good ole Windows (XP and pre) days where after 1 day surfing the web you'd have a few viruses.

And of course if you go with the default options (gatekeeper, signed packages, etc) you have even less to worry about.

It's also not about "market share" -- Macs had 1/4 the market share they have now in 1990-1997, but there were tons of viruses for them under the old OS.

It's not like the original (pre-many security features were introduced) OS X was specially hardened or anything, but it was much more secure than Mac OS and the old Windows versions just by having a basic UNIX-style design.

Re: Slow Software

#92

Post by [deleted] »

pjmlp wrote: post #81
coder543 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

In many enterprises you are only allowed to connect laptops into the network if an anti-virus is present, that includes company issued Macs.

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Re: Slow Software

#93

Post by winrid »

black-tea wrote: post #84
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…

Place I worked at the laptops often had one core pegged at 100% load by some disk monitor that was competing with the AV software. I left very quickly and you should too.

Why not compaign for the change to different AV software?

Re: Slow Software

#94

Post by pjmlp »

coldtea wrote: post #90
pjmlp wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked in such companies, where you need to sign that you assume all legal consequences of a virus being introduced into the company network via your computer.

You don't sign, and leave right when they ask you to, laughing at them?

My computer was proper, those were customer sites.

No, most people would rather install an IT certified anti-virus on their systems and keep the customer, than lose the business opportunity.

Re: Slow Software

#95

Post by pjmlp »

eikenberry wrote: post #82
pjmlp wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked in such companies, where you need to sign that you assume all legal consequences of a virus being introduced into the company network via your computer.

I've never had to sign such an agreement. I'm US based, maybe this is something done elsewhere?

Germany based customers.

Re: Slow Software

#96

Post by Murk »

pjmlp wrote: post #83
coder543 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce! Nice graphical tooling and sane developer experience.

I consider perforce "views" to be burdonsome and not so sane. The rest of the experience may be less jarring than git for many.

Re: Slow Software

#98

Post by heronymus »

richjdsmith wrote: post #85
godDLL wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What is industrial alpinism?

I think it means workers who, for example, climb on industrial chimneys for maintenance.

Re: Slow Software

#99

Post by taneq »

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…

> I ended up writing an AutoHotkey script that would get mouse scrolling about 80% sane and manage my clipboard.

I used to run AlwaysMouseWheel to fix up focus scrolling, but forgot to set it up after my last reinstall. Thanks for the reminder! :)

http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=AlwaysMouseWheel

As for the other stuff, ugh. I've made it a general rule not to work anywhere where I don't get root on my own box.

Re: Slow Software

#100

Post by LandR »

Moru wrote: post #78
robochat wrote: post #16

My least favorite type of latency is when you start typing and the application takes at least 1 - 2 seconds to catch up with you. This still happen to me often enough to be a normal occurrence on both my desktop computer and phone.

This still exists with todays computers and systems? I remember back in school (a long time ago) we had computers that was so slow it took 7 seconds for the backspace key to start doing something on some of the computers. This was in the 286 age with windows 3.11 I believe. I haven't seen it much since then. What in the world are you using to have this experience?

My work laptop is an i7 with 16GB RAM and I sometimes see this delay in inputs when running Visual Studio. I type a line of code then wait a few seconds for it to appear.

Weird thing is when it does this, I'm not using all the memory and the CPU is normally sitting way below 50%.

I've no idea why it sometimes just gets unusably slow.

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