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By rick
via compaspascal.blogspot.com
Published: Jul 05 2009 / 21:53

Jeff Atwood likes referring to his blog post about Hardware is cheap, programmers are expensive. where he writes: "Given the rapid advance of Moore's Law, when does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I'd say almost always."
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s0lidmetal replied ago:

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Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/386/

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Justin Silverton replied ago:

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I agree with this article.

also,

Why spend more money on hardware, when you can improve software performance? Programmers are cheap, especially when they can mult-task.

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