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sscaryterry 39 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

Yes and no. Faster hardware doesn’t solve pathologically broken algorithms :)

fragmede 39 days ago [–]

Worth's law: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

sscaryterry 39 days ago | | [–]

Yep, and its nothing new :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

fragmede 38 days ago | | [–]

*Wirth

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