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[allsorts46]

Hmm, fairly normal few days with some odd other bits thrown in. To resume from the last (meaningful) entry, the situation... well, was never resolved, but went away anyway. It'll be back I've no doubt, but there's always something to keep my life interesting anyway. I've noticed that my happiness seems to now be tied almost entirely to monetary

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[parallaxlioness]

I do get kind of concerned about the attitude of a lot of programmers nowadays, especially in the classes where programmers are taught. Teachers seem to spread this attitude of "Our hardware is faster, so it's okay to let our programs get bloated to match." We've all heard of Moore's law, but the irony is that software efficiency seems to be inversely proportional. Some of it's that we're just running more complex, graphic-heavy programs, but a lot of it is also poorly designed languages and lazy programmers, particularly on the corporate level. I'll never forget the day I realized that Microsoft Office is barely able to fit on a CD, compressed, but OpenOffice is something like 65MB, and very much comparable. =) The sheer overhead of a single Word document, for instance, or the unreal amount of resources that Minesweeper takes to run... sometimes it seems hilarious, sometimes, just depressing.

I'm not perfect, either, but I take pride in trying to improve my habits, as opposed to others (not you, but the modern computing world in general) who seem to be increasingly comfortable with regressing into lazy programming in inefficient languages. I'm almost afraid to find out the minimum system requirements for Longhorn. lol

Anyway, I'm not trying to preach, here, just agreeing with a lot of what you said above. I have no doubt that for what you do, .net makes a lot of sense. When you need to rapidly design and redesign systems, letting the computer do the dirty work, even if you could do it better, can be a real lifesaver.

Time for bed, now, though. Heh. And I still have that new entry of yours to read. Forgive me; I'll have to get to it tomorrow. ;)