[Python-Dev] On the dangers of giving developers the best resources

[Nam Nguyen]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:22 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> On 08/10/2013 23:21, Tim Delaney wrote:
>
>> On 9 October 2013 09:10, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org
>> <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     It's not actually so much the extreme waste that I'm looking to
>>     expose, but rather the day-to-day annoyances of stuff you use
>>     regularly that slows you down by just a second (or ten), or things
>>     that gets slower at each release.
>>
>>
>> Veering off-topic (but still related) ...
>>
>> There's a reason I turn off all animations when I set up a machine for
>> someone ... I've found turning off the animations is the quickest way to
>> make a machine feel faster - even better than adding an SSD. The number
>> of times I've fixed a "slow" machine by this one change ...
>>
>> I think everyone even remotely involved in the existence of animations
>> in the OS should be forced to have the slowest animations turned on at
>> all times, no matter the platform (OSX, Windows, Linux ...). Which comes
>> back to the idea of developers having slow machines so they feel the
>> pain ...
>>
>>  I remember one time when I was using a Mac. Although it was faster than
> another machine I was using, the GUI felt sluggish because instead of
> windows just appearing and disappearing they expanded and contracted,
> which, of course, took time; not much time, true, but enough to become
> annoying.


Try holding shift and minimizing/restoring Finder in OS X ;).
Nam
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