But what would we bloggers do without it?

If i couldn’t upload files from my ‘droid to my dropbox, there would be great sadness…

We  software guys used to joke it was our job to make the software slower faster than the hardware guys make the hardware faster.

We won.

Seriously, for decades now we’ve been using more and more hardware resources to make writing and maintaining software easier, quicker and cheaper.  Of course at any given time in the evolution we worked hard to optimize whatever stack there was to get the highest whatever number.  But the stacks kept growing and growing and the hardware jocks kept blowing us away with amazing Moore-ian progress.

Maybe it’s time to put a pile of effort into cutting through the amazing layers of generalizing systems to reduce back from millions the number of instructions it takes to echo a darned keystroke.