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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Well, the point and click part was a bit extreme. Still true in some rare cases, but actual programming still requires a keyboard.
However the RAM thing is interesting. Haven't actually written any code in the 70's and 80's, but what I've heard from people who did, RAM was a huge bottle neck. Well, pretty much everything was. Even the bandwidth between your terminal and the mainframe was a bottle neck that made you suffer.
Back in those days, programmers were painfully aware of the hardware limitations. If you wanted your code to run within a reasonable amount of time, you absolutely had to focus on optimizing it.
It's not a "bit extreme" its absolute nonsense
LabVIEW is definitely programming of some sort, but doesn’t feel at all like programming. Pretty marginal example, but still…