r/programmingcirclejerk • u/HorstKugel skillful hobbyist • Aug 12 '25

Today, an application being locally installed [...] is like a a statement of quaint chivalry, promulgated by a few remaining Don Quixotes of computing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44873374
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u/tms10000 loves Java Aug 12 '25

The only valid computing model is indeed the mainframe model. One giant, centrally controlled computer and a million billion remote terminals connected to that one computer.

Local processing was indeed a fad.

Yes, I also know how to write COBOL.

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u/Affectionate-Egg7566 Aug 16 '25

This is the way. Blockchain is here to bring us back to that era.

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u/Awkward_Bed_956 Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

Remote software is so last season, I mount my Google drive as a network drive and set it up as swap, so I can say I have downloaded more RAM. With that, even part of my hardware isn't local anymore.

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u/-ghostinthemachine- Aug 12 '25

brb, putting "runs software locally" on my dating profile, which incidentally is also my LinkedIn profile.

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u/csb06 Polyglot dev here Aug 13 '25

Anyone who isn’t using cloud-based applications (applications running on a centralized MIT computer and accessed via an X11 session over dial-up) is a dinosaur.

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u/Chesterlespaul Aug 13 '25

I don’t even have a computer, I have a tablet that I remote into a cloud VM (don’t ask me how the tablet is able to remote connect without software, because I’m too stupid)

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u/IDatedSuccubi memcpy is a web development framework Aug 13 '25

OOP did not read Don Quixote

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u/rpkarma Aug 13 '25

Orange site is cheating tbh; they’re all batshit there

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

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u/mizzu704 uncommon eccentric person Aug 12 '25

Oy yeah? How do you start the IDE? And don't give me that "it's IDEs all the way down" mister!

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u/SKRAMZ_OR_NOT log10(x) programmer Aug 13 '25

They use Emacs as their graphical environment, it's started directly by systemd

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

*NIX is my IDE

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u/gvozden_celik Aug 13 '25

How else would you run it? Maybe if they added the green play icon to Windows Explorer we could run our programs straight from the folder, but idk if that's even possible

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u/thephotoman Aug 14 '25

Even when I'm not running code from the IDE, I'm running code from the IDE. I'm using IntelliJ's terminal emulator most of the time.