Comment by StavrosK | Hacker News Reader

Comment by StavrosK | Hacker News Reader

In my experience, this is 100% spot on. Hell, while typing this comment the caret is catching up to my keystrokes. Why can't we get interfaces right? We have all this processing speed available and yet our computers are slow. I press the shortcut to open a new filemanager window and it takes a second, why can't it take a few ms? My window manager is already loaded, what takes so long!

Like it or not, this is the primary reason that the iPhone is so popular. It is the first fast smartphone. All the other phones I had tried before the iPhone came out were just frustratingly slow. Hopefully, with the competition, other phone manufacturers have started to fix this (I'll get my first Android phone soon, I hope it's a fast one).

> Why can't we get interfaces right? We have all this processing speed available and yet our computers are slow.

My computer is not slow. I rarely see issues like a cursor that is delayed with respect to my typing. What kind of device do you have? Have you actually tried doing any performance analysis to see why it is slow? Did you buy your computer based on it not being slow, or, to put it another way, give an economic incentive to the outcome you want? (Clearly not, based on your post.) Or was there something else you opted to prioritize over that quickness you say you want so much?

I've had cursor-delay happen on every OS I've tried, in nearly every application, unless I was using Vim / the CLI. Except for Windows' CLI - that gets more worthless the more I use it, and is significantly slower than many other Windows tools.

Yeah, what's up with that? NetBeans is great in theory, but I type half a word and have to wait for a second for it to show me completions I don't even want... I've switched to vim completely now, not for any conscious reason, but just for the fact that I found running it to quickly edit a file and then staying there for hours.

It's a Core 2 Quad with 4 GB ram and an Intel X-25M SSD...

I think it's not that your computer is fast, it's that you are slower than your computer. Which do you use more frequently for navigation, the mouse or the keyboard?

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