5 ms·
Why on earth would it not apply to programmers? We accumulate just as much cruft, if not much more, than the usual person. I have old 8086s, Atari's, tons of co
by fatso83 9y ago
Why on earth would it not apply to programmers? We accumulate just as much cruft, if not much more, than the usual person. I have old 8086s, Atari's, tons of computer peripherals for ports I no longer have, etc. Most of it chucked away in some attic (somewhere). We gather stuff that obsoletes fast than anything, besides food. And we as a industry produce it too: I had a Nokia 3110 for close to a decade. Now my phones seldom last me two years.
- cyberferret 9y agoI think it will depend on where you are at in the 'programmer' journey. For me, while it was still an exciting hobby decades ago, I used to collect PCs and consoles, keyboards and peripherals etc. just to tinker with them and experiment. Then, as programming became more and more of a 'day job' and not a fun side project, I found myself getting rid of the clutter of obsolete equipment around the place. 35 years later, I am happy with just a basic iMac as my main development machine, and a Lenovo laptop as my Windows/backup development machine. That is it. No more multi screen setups or fancy keyboards & mice even - just stock standard stuff to get the job done so I can spend energy on my passion projects.
- dagw 9y agoSounds exactly like my journy. I used to 'pride' myself on having a *nix running on all the major CPU families (x86, PPC, Sparc, alpha and MIPS) sitting in my study. Now I just have a basic PC and a laptop.